Monuments and microscopes: Scientific thinking on a grand scale in the early Royal Society
@article{Jardine2001MonumentsAM,
title={Monuments and microscopes: Scientific thinking on a grand scale in the early Royal Society},
author={L. Jardine},
journal={Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London},
year={2001},
volume={55},
pages={289 - 308}
}On 25 August 1664 (almost exactly two years before the Great Fire of London) the curator of experiments for The Royal Society in London, Robert Hooke, wrote to the ‘father of modern chemistry’, Robert Boyle (for whom he did regular work as a paid designer and builder of experimental equipment), at his ‘elaboratory’ in Oxford, describing some scientific experiments he had carried out for The Royal Society a few days earlier.
