The History of the Royal Society of London

Name: The History of the Royal Society of London
Author: Thomas Sprat

Thomas Sprat

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The History of the Royal Society of London

Thomas Sprat

Latin

1667

480 pages

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Thomas Sprat’s history documents the moment science abandoned dusty books for the workbench. Readers will discover why the early Royal Society believed that observing a single oyster was more valuable than memorizing a thousand pages of ancient rhetoric.