The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine, and Science, 1500–2000 by Scott Mandelbrote Margaret Pelling

Author:Scott Mandelbrote, Margaret Pelling [Scott Mandelbrote, Margaret Pelling]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781351883603
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

I wish to thank Michael Hunter and Scott Mandelbrote for their helpful comments.

1 Thomas Birch, The History of the Royal Society of London (4 vols, repr. Brussels, 1967), p. 3.

2 Margery Purver was the only historian to recognize the significance of the polemical context, but her shaky command of the literature – as well as the exaggerated claims she made regarding Bacon and Sprat’s version – obscured the point: The Royal Society: Concept and Creation (London, 1967). See, more generally, A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall, ‘The intellectual origins of the Royal Society – London and Oxford’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 23 (1968), 157-68; Christopher Hill, ‘The intellectual origins of the Royal Society – London or Oxford’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 23 (1968), 144-56; Charles Webster, ‘The origins of the Royal Society’, History of Science, 6 (1967), 106-28. The fullest account of the Interregnum period is to be found in Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform 1626-1660 (London, 1975) and Robert G. Frank, Jr., Harvey and the Oxford Physiologists: A Study of Scientific Ideas and Social Interaction (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1980).

3 Birch, History of the Royal Society, i, pp. 83-4.

4 Birch, History of the Royal Society, ii, p. 272; Philosophical Transactions (number 35) iii, 665-8. Oldenburg immediately reviewed the book: Philosophical Transactions (number 47) iii, 958-9.

5 Philosophical Transactions (number 61) iv, 1087-97 (Wallis’s letter); 1098-9 (editorial comment). No manuscript copy of Wallis’s letter to Boyle survives.

6 John Wallis, Grammar of the English Language, ed. J.A. Kemp (London, 1972), p. 117.

7 The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Noel Malcolm (2 vols, Oxford, 1994), ii, pp. 753-4. No record of this affair is recorded in the Journal Book – in line with most other contentious matters.

8 Robert Plot, The Natural History of Oxford-Shire (Oxford, 1677), pp. 281-2. The book was licensed by Ralph Bathurst on 13 April 1676.

9 As an illustration of the sort of treachery of which Wallis was capable, Aubrey charged that when Wallis was entrusted with the printing of William Oughtred’s Clavis Mathematicae, he became dissatisfied with the generous encomium bestowed on him by the author – ‘a sharp-witted, pious, and hard-working man, very well versed in all literature of the more recondite sort, and perceptive in mathematical matters’ – so he added a sentence of his own composition: ‘and with astonishing ability to unravel and explain writings which have been hidded and concealed in the most elaborate of cyphers’: The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Noel Malcolm (2 vols, Oxford, 1994), ii, pp. 753-4.

10 William Holder, A Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions (London, 1678), p. 4. Holder also mentioned that Sir Charles Scarborough incorporated an account of his method in the anatomical lectures he delivered at the College of Physicians.

11 Anthony Wood, Fasti Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss (2 parts, London, 1815-20), ii, p. 245.

12 John Wallis, A Defence of the Royal Society (London, 1678), pp. 7-8.

13 Plot, Oxford-Shire, pp. 282-5; Wallis, Defence, pp. 16-19. Wilkins did not

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