The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner & Andrew Briggs

Author:Roger Wagner & Andrew Briggs [Wagner, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2016-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

The Experimental Club

Wilkins was a convinced Copernican who at the age of 24 had published The Discovery of a World in the Moon and followed it up two years later with A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet [Fig. 30.1]. In the preface to this he described his desire to raise up an active spirit to search after ‘hidden and unknown truths’ in the manner advocated by ‘the judicious Verulam’.2 A year after his appointment as warden, he founded ‘an experimentall philosophicall clubbe’3 which met weekly in his rooms.

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