Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society

by Michael Hunter

This book gives a fresh view of the formative years of Britain's oldest scientific institution, the Royal Society of London, founded in 1660. It consists of a series of detailed case-studies of key episodes in the Society's early evolution, based on the extensive and illuminating documentation that survives. Taken together, these essays give a telling picture of the actual process by which this seminal institution developed. They illustrate disagreements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851155065
• ISBN13: 9780851155067
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"