The FellowshipGilbert, Bacon, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revol by John Gribbin (Author)

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The FellowshipGilbert, Bacon, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revol by John Gribbin (Author)ISBN: 9781590200261 Publisher : Overlook Books , June 24, 2008 Paperback, 384 pages 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. At the heart of this renaissance were the founding fathers of modern western science: The Royal

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