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The Royal Society: concept and creation / Margery Purver ; with an introduction by H. R. Trevor-Roper.
LIBRA Rare Q41.L86 P86 1967 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purver, Margery, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Royal Society (Great Britain).
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 246 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : The M.I.T. Press, 1967.
- Contents:
- The Problem of the origin of the Royal Society
- The Validity and significance of Sprat's History as a source
- A New System of Natural Philosophy I, Francis Bacon
- A New System of Natural Philosophy II, The Royal Society
- The Oxford Experimental Science Club
- Establishment as a Royal Foundation
- The Religious policy of the Royal Society
- John Wallis's Accounts of the Origin of the Royal Society
- The Royal Society and Gresham College
- The Invisible College
- The Royal Society and 'Pansophia'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Kislak Center Adams copy retains dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 238033
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