The Royal Society of London, effectively Britain's national academy of science, has been particularly concerned with experimental science. Despite all that has been written in the past decades about the first half-century of the Royal Society's existence, no one has yet examined what took place at the society's weekly meetings or how far these meetings fulfilled the expressed aim of promoting "experimental learning." Aware that Hooke performed many experiments...
The Royal Society of London has, ever since its foundation in 1660, been particularly concerned with experimental science. This book explores for the first time the practices of the Society's Fellows and shows how these altered between 1660 and 1727.
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