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66 relations: Abraham Hill, Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine, Arundel House, Charles Scarborough, Cheapside, Chelsea College (17th century), Christopher Merret, Christopher Wren, Daniel Whistler, Dictionary of National Biography, Experiment, First English Civil War, Francis Bacon, Francis Glisson, Gabriel Plattes, George Ent, Great Fire of London, Gresham College, Hartlib Circle, Henry Oldenburg, Henry Slingsby (Master of the Mint), Historiography, Invisible College, John Bond (jurist), John Evelyn, John Pell, John Wallis, John Wilkins, Jonathan Goddard, Joseph Clinton Robertson, Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, Lawrence Rooke, List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1660, Marin Mersenne, Natural philosophy, Oxford Philosophical Club, Paul Neile, Peter Langtoft, Restoration (England), Richard Cromwell, Robert Boyle, Robert Moray, Royal charter, Royal Society, Samuel Foster, Saturn, Theodore Haak, Thomas Baines (physician), Thomas Birch, Thomas Byerley (journalist), ..., Thomas Hearne (antiquarian), Thomas Henshaw (alchemist), Thomas Horton (Gresham College), Thomas Sprat, Thomas Winston, Timothy Clarke, Walter Pope, Westminster Assembly, William Ball (astronomer), William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, William Croone, William Erskine (master of Charterhouse), William Holder, William Petty, Wood Street, London. Expand index (16 more) »
Abraham Hill
Abraham Hill FRS (19 April 1633 London - 5 February 1721) was a British merchant.
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Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine
Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine FRS (1629–1681) was a Scottish inventor, politician, judge and freemason, responsible for developing the pendulum clock, in collaboration with Christiaan Huygens.
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Arundel House
Arundel House was a London town-house or palace located between the Strand and the River Thames, near St Clement Danes.
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Charles Scarborough
Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh MP FRS FRCP (29 December 1615 – 26 February 1694) was an English physician and mathematician.
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Cheapside
Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road.
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Chelsea College (17th century)
Chelsea College was a polemical college founded in London in 1609.
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Christopher Merret
Christopher Merret FRS (16 February 1614/5 – 19 August 1695), also spelt Merrett, was an English physician and scientist.
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Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (–) was an English anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist, as well as one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.
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Daniel Whistler
Daniel Whistler (1619–1684) was an English physician.
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
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Experiment
An experiment is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis.
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First English Civil War
The First English Civil War (1642–1646) began the series of three wars known as the English Civil War (or "Wars").
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.
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Francis Glisson
Francis Glisson (1597 – 14 October 1677) was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects.
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Gabriel Plattes
Gabriel Plattes (c.1600–1644) was an English writer on agriculture and science, and also now recognised as the author of the utopian work Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria, often attributed to Samuel Hartlib under whose name it was published.
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George Ent
George Ent (6 November 1604 – 13 October 1689) was an English scientist in the seventeenth century who focused on the study of anatomy.
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Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 of September 1666.
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Gresham College
Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in Central London, England.
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Hartlib Circle
The Hartlib Circle was the correspondence network set up in Western and Central Europe by Samuel Hartlib, an intelligencer based in London, and his associates, in the period 1630 to 1660.
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Henry Oldenburg
Henry Oldenburg (also Henry Oldenbourg) FRS (c. 1619 as Heinrich Oldenburg – 5 September 1677) was a German theologian known as a diplomat, a natural philosopher and as the creator of scientific peer review.
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Henry Slingsby (Master of the Mint)
Sir Henry Slingsby (c.1621 – c.1688) was an English Master of the Mint.
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Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
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Invisible College
The Invisible College has been described as a precursor group to the Royal Society of London, consisting of a number of natural philosophers around Robert Boyle.
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John Bond (jurist)
John Bond LL.D. (1612–1676) was an English jurist, Puritan clergyman, member of the Westminster Assembly, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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John Evelyn
John Evelyn, FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.
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John Pell
John Pell (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician and political agent abroad.
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John Wallis
John Wallis (3 December 1616 – 8 November 1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus.
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John Wilkins
John Wilkins, (16141672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society.
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Jonathan Goddard
Jonathan Goddard (1617–1675) was an English physician, known both as army surgeon to the forces of Oliver Cromwell, and as an active member of the Royal Society.
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Joseph Clinton Robertson
Joseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, was a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor.
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Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (22 March 1615 – 3 December 1691), also known as Lady Ranelagh, was a scientist in seventeenth-century Britain.
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Lawrence Rooke
Lawrence Rooke (also Laurence) (1622–26 June 1662) was an English astronomer and mathematician.
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List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1660
This is a complete list of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in its first year, 1660.
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Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne (8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath, whose works touched a wide variety of fields.
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Natural philosophy
Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) was the philosophical study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science.
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Oxford Philosophical Club
The Oxford Philosophical Club refers to a group of natural philosophers, mathematicians, physicians, virtuosi and dilettanti gathering around John Wilkins FRS (1614–1672) at Oxford in the period 1649 to 1660.
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Paul Neile
Sir Paul Neile FRS (1613 – February 1686) was an English astronomer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1673 to 1677.
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Peter Langtoft
Peter Langtoft, also known as Peter of Langtoft (Piers de Langtoft; died 1305) was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Restoration (England)
The Restoration of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period.
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Richard Cromwell
Richard Cromwell (4 October 162612 July 1712) became the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, and was one of only two commoners to become the English head of state, the other being his father, Oliver Cromwell, from whom he inherited the post.
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor.
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Robert Moray
Sir Robert Moray (alternative spellings: Murrey, Murray) FRS (1608 or 1609 – 4 July 1673) was a Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, freemason and natural philosopher.
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Royal charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.
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Royal Society
The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.
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Samuel Foster
Samuel Foster (died 1652) was an English mathematician and astronomer.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Theodore Haak
Theodore Haak (Neuhausen 1605 – London 1690) was a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life.
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Thomas Baines (physician)
Sir Thomas Baines, M.D. (1622–1680) was an English physician, the lifelong companion of the ambassador Sir John Finch, M.D.
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Thomas Birch
Thomas Birch (23 November 1705 – 9 January 1766) was an English historian.
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Thomas Byerley (journalist)
Thomas Byerley (1789–1826), (also known by the pseudonyms of Reuben Percy and Stephen Collet), was an English journalist and compiler of the Percy Anecdotes.
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Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)
Thomas Hearne or Hearn (July 1678 – 10 June 1735) was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important historical texts.
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Thomas Henshaw (alchemist)
Thomas Henshaw (1618–1700) was an English lawyer, courtier, diplomat and scientific writer.
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Thomas Horton (Gresham College)
Thomas Horton D.D. (died 1673) was an English clergyman, Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in London, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Thomas Sprat
Thomas Sprat, FRS (1635 – 20 May 1713) was an English churchman, Bishop of Rochester from 1684.
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Thomas Winston
Thomas Winston (1576–1655) was an English physician.
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Timothy Clarke
Timothy Clarke (died 1672) was an English physician, a founding Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Walter Pope
Walter Pope (c. 1627 – 1714) was an English astronomer and poet.
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Westminster Assembly
The Westminster Assembly of Divines was a council of theologians (or "divines") and members of the English Parliament appointed to restructure the Church of England which met from 1643 to 1653.
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William Ball (astronomer)
William Ball (or Balle, c. 1631–1690) was an English astronomer.
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William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton FRS (4 May 1631 – 17 March 1680) was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in the Irish peerage in 1664.
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William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, PRS (1620 – 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician who introduced Brouncker's formula, and was the first President of the Royal Society.
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William Croone
William Croone (15 September 1633 – 12 October 1684) was an English physician and one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society.
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William Erskine (master of Charterhouse)
William Erskine (died 1685), was master of Charterhouse Hospital.
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William Holder
William Holder FRS (1616 – 24 January 1698) was an English clergyman and music theorist of the 17th century.
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William Petty
Sir William Petty FRS (Romsey, 26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist, physician, scientist and philosopher.
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Wood Street, London
Wood Street is a street in the City of London, the historic centre and primary financial district of London.
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