Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… to knowledge could be publicly demonstrated – for instance, observations of phenomena in foreign lands - and so the status of an individual was integral to evaluating the integrity of the knowledge claim. Steven Shapin’s influential work … Association with the Royal Society could do much to advance one’s reputation and there were attempts to elevate the status of a number of non-elite scientific informants for polite and learned society. William Dampier was a buccaneer …
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