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Newton's Telescope and the Cataloguing of the Royal Society's Repository

Secondary Title (i.e. Proceedings Title): Editions of this work: Periodical Title: Publication Type:article Authors:Simpson, A. D. C. Editors: Publisher: Place of Publication: Publication Date:1984 Alternate Date (i.e. Conference Date): Volume:38 Issue: Start Page:187 End Page:214 Abstract:The Royal Society’s Repository or museum played a significant part in the activities of the Society, at least in the early decades of its life. The Repository’s extraordinarily varied contents represented a practical response to the Society’s public concern for curious and useful invention and for sober Baconian observation of all that was new and remarkable in nature. The rapid growth of the Repository in the second half of the seventeenth century can be traced in the Society’s minutes, which record ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’ curiosities being presented by Fellows and providing the basis for much of the discussion at meetings. Descriptors/Keywords: ISBN: URL:
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Subject of/in a document - Royal Society (-)
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