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Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science

Product Description: Until the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I had a court magician, John Dee. However during the reign of the Stuart kings magic was killed and science took its place...read more

By Robert Lomas

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9781592330119 | Fair Winds Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Looks at the formation of the Royal Society and the man who was the driving force behind it, Sir Robert Moray.

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9781500842833 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 22, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Until the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked.

9781592330645 | Fair Winds Pr, March 4, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1660, within a few months of the restoration of Charles II, a group of twelve men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met in London to set up a society to study the mechanisms of nature.

The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London

Traces the career of the seventeenth-century Chief Surveyor, noting his work for London's rebuilding after the fire of 1666, his role in the emergence of modern science, and his place in the scientific revolution of the period.

By Lisa Jardine

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9780060538972 | Harpercollins, February 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Traces the career of the seventeenth-century Chief Surveyor, noting his work for London's rebuilding after the fire of 1666, his role in the emergence of modern science, and his place in the scientific revolution of the period.

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9780060538989 | Reprint edition (Perennial, February 1, 2005), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Traces the career of the seventeenth-century Chief Surveyor, noting his work for London's rebuilding after the fire of 1666, his role in the emergence of modern science, and his place in the scientific revolution of the period.

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9781435291829 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $24.95

The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution

Product Description: Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire, a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. But then a series of meetings of "natural philosophers" in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment...read more

By John Gribbin

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9781585678310 | Overlook Pr, April 5, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Charts the efforts of a group of 'natural philosophers' in seventeenth-century England who were to become the founding fathers of the Royal Society, placing their collaborations in historical context while discussing their specific contributions.

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9781590200261 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, June 24, 2008), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire, a world ruled by superstition and ignorance.

Robert Hooke: Tercentennial Studies

By Michael Cooper (editor) and Michael Cyril William Hunter (editor)

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9780754653653 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 31, 2006, cover price $154.95

Defoe And the New Sciences

Product Description: In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience, or his belief in man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature. In this first major study of Bacon's legacy to Defoe, Ilse Vickers shows that the ideas and concepts of Baconian science were a major influence on Defoe's thinking and writing...read more

By Ilse Vickers

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9780521402798 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $134.99 | About this edition: In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience, or his belief in man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature.

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9780521024365 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 9, 2006), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: In his long career as a writer Daniel Defoe never tired of advocating the value of personal observation and experience, or his belief in man's God-given duty to explore and make productive use of nature.

Robert Boyle Reconsidered

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By Michael Hunter (editor)

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9780521442053 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $132.00

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9780521892674 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $64.99

London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke

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By Jim Bennett, Michael Cooper, Michael Hunter and Lisa Jardine

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9780198525790 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 29, 2003, cover price $45.00

The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform 1626-1660

Product Description: This study is concerned with the movement for the reform of science and medicine and with wider schemes for social reconstruction during the Puritan Revolution. It underlines the importance of the apocalyptic and millenarian traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Charles Webster

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9780820456164 | 2nd edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 2002), cover price $68.95 | About this edition: This study is concerned with the movement for the reform of science and medicine and with wider schemes for social reconstruction during the Puritan Revolution.

9783906768373 | Peter Lang, June 1, 2002, cover price $116.95

Promoting Experimental Learning: Experiment and the Royal Society, 1660-1727

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By Marie Boas Hall

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9780521405034 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 25, 1991, cover price $125.00

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9780521892650, titled "Promoting Experimental Learning: Experiment and the Royal Society 1660-1727" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $54.99

Henry More: And the Scientific Revolution

Product Description: Henry More (1614-87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists. An admirer of Galileo, Descartes and Boyle, he rejected their detailed applications of mechanical philosophy to the explanation of natural phenomena...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By A. Rupert Hall

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9780521562232 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Henry More (1614-87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists.

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9780521892643, titled "Henry More and the Scientific Revolution" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $79.99 | About this edition: Henry More (1614-87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists.

Science Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England

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By Robert K. Merton

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9780865271784 | Howard Fertig Pub, June 1, 1970, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Book by Merton, Robert K.

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9780865274341, titled "Science, Technology & Society in Seventeenth-Century England" | Reprint edition (Howard Fertig Pub, February 1, 2002), cover price $17.95

Solomon's Child: Method in the Early Royal Society of London

Product Description: This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Baconâs program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Baconâs program shaped the Societyâs earliest work in important, if often contradictory, ways as fellows wedded Baconâs ideas to their various interests and problem areas...read more

By William T. Lynch

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9780804732918 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Baconâs program for the methodological reform of the sciences.

Robert Boyle, (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science

Product Description: Robert Boyle (1627-91), one of the seminal figures in the origins of modern science, yet a complex and tortured personality, has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent years. Here, Michael Hunter, the acknowledged expert on Boyle, makes use of much hitherto unpublished material to offer a novel and distinctive view of the man...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Michael Hunter (editor)

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9780851157986 | Boydell Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Robert Boyle (1627-91), one of the seminal figures in the origins of modern science, yet a complex and tortured personality, has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent years.

Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain

Product Description: The rise of the new, experimental science coexisted with other intellectual traditions which displayed equal vitality, including historical and philological learning, attitudes to magic and the wisdom of antiquity, and anxiety about what contemporaries called `atheism'...read more

By Michael Hunter

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9780851155944 | Boydell Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The rise of the new, experimental science coexisted with other intellectual traditions which displayed equal vitality, including historical and philological learning, attitudes to magic and the wisdom of antiquity, and anxiety about what contemporaries called `atheism'.

The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750

Product Description: In The Rise of Public Science, Larry Stewart explores social attitudes towards the claims and the activities of the natural philosophers in Britain from the Restoration to the first stage of industrialisation. By examining the activities and the promotions in which Newton's disciples became involved, Stewart sheds light on prevailing and practising attitudes to science and technology before the Industrial Revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry Stewart

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9780521417006 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In The Rise of Public Science, Larry Stewart explores social attitudes towards the claims and the activities of the natural philosophers in Britain from the Restoration to the first stage of industrialisation.

Henry More: Magic, Religion and Experiment

Traces the life and work of the theologian, set within the intellectual and scientific climate of the seventeenth-century

By A. Rupert Hall

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9780631172956 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and work of the theologian, set within the intellectual and scientific climate of the seventeenth-century

Speculum Britanniae: Regional Study, Antiquarianism, and Science in Britain to 1700