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

Abstract

Latitudinarianism and the ideology of the early Royal Society - Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society(1667) reconsidered an experiment in corporate enterprise - the Royal Society's Committees of 1663-5, with a transcript of the surviving minutes of their meetings between cabinet of curiosities and research collection - the history of the Royal Society's repository a college for the Royal Society - the abortive plan of 1667-1668 towards Solomon's House - rival strategies for reforming the early Royal Society promoting the new science - Henry Oldenburg and the early Royal Society early problems in professionalizing scientific research - Nehemiah Grew and the Royal Society, with an unpublished letter to Henry Oldenburg science, technology and patronage - Robert Hooke and the Cutlerian lectureship. Appendix: Reconstructing restoration science - problems and pitfalls in institutional history. Bibliographical essay: recent studies of the early Royal Society and its milieu.

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