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Further Reading

Lisa Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (Abacus, 2000)

Lisa Jardine, On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren (HarperCollins, 2003)

Lisa Jardine, The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London (HarperCollins, 2004)

John Gribbin, The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution (Allen Lane, 2005)

Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660-1700: the morphology of an early scientific institution (Chalfont St.Giles: British Society for the History of Science, 1994)

Michael Hunter, Establishing the new science: the experience of the early Royal Society (Boydell Press, 1989)

Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England (Cambridge University Press, 1981)

Michael Hunter, An Essay 'First Steps in Institutionalisation: the Role of the Royal Society of London', in Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Studies of Intellectual Change in late 17th-century Britain (Boydell Press, 1995)

Science, Culture and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe, ed. by Stephen Pumfrey (Manchester University Press, 1994)


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