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Academies of science in the seventeenth Bacon, Francis, century, 9-10 his New Atlantis, 9, 32 air, his Novum Organum, 9 and Boyle, 28, 123, 124 his scientific method, 9 and Wren, 27 Ball, William, 167-172 air-pump, and Cassini, 170 and Boyle, 123 his early years, 167 and Hooke, 123 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 alchemy, and the Earth, motion of, 170-1 and Ashmole, 223-224 and Hooke, 170 anatomy, and Huygens, 167-170, 171 and Petty’s Professorship of, 82 and Jupiter, his observations of, 169-170 Andrade, E. N. da C., on Robert Hooke, and the Lectiones Cutlerianae, 170-171 137-145 and magnetism, 168-169 animals, and Moray, 168-169 accurate observations of, in the sixteenth and Neile, 167-168 century, 3 and Oldenburg, 170 Aristotle, and the Royal Society, authority of his writings in the sixteenth first meeting of, 31-2 century, 3 formal constitution of, 1 Armitage, A., on William Ball, 167-172 and Saturn, 161, 167-170 artificial silk, 141 and the Sun, 169 Ashmole, Elias, 221-230 his Treasurership of the Royal Society, 32, and alchemy, 223-4 168-169 and astrology, 222 and Wallis, 167 and Backhouse, 223 and Wren, 167-168 and Charles II, 225, 227 barometer, wheel-type, and Wharton, 222, 224 and Hooke, 140 and Wren, 224 Barrow, and College of Arms, 227 his Chair at Gresham College, 8 his The Institution, laws and ceremonies of the Bathurst, Ralph, most notable Order of the , 227 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 13, and Tradescant collection, 226, 227, 228 18, 23-24, 26 Ashmolean Museum, and Sthael, 28 foundation of, 227-228 de Beer, E. S., astrology, on Charles II, 39-45 and Ashmole, 222 on John Evelyn, 231-23 8 astronomical telescopes, Birch, Thomas, and Hooke, 140, 142 and the term ‘Invisible College’, 21-23 Aubrey, John, Biringuccio, Vannoccio, and Petty, 82 his De la pirotechnia, 1 blood, and Boyle, 130 Backhouse, William, circulation of, and Ashmole, 223 and Willis, 95 266 blood-transfusion experiments, Boyle, Robert—continued and Boyle, ioi and Wilkins, 24, 50 and Wren, ioi his Will, note on, 134 Bluhm, R. K., and Wren, 101 on Henry Oldenburg, 183-195 the brain, Bowen, E. S., and Hartley, Sir Harold, and Willis, his study of, 94 on John Wilkins, 47-56 Brereton, Lord, Boyle, Richard, and early scientific meetings in London, 18 and the Royal Society, foundation meeting Brouncker, William, 147-157 of, 168 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 Boyle, Robert, 119-13 5 his experiments, 154 and the air, his work on, 28 and Hooke, 154-15 5 and alchemists, his attacks on, 125 and mathematics, 147, 148-149 his anatomical dissections, 24 and music, 147-148 and animal tissues, 128-9 and Neile, 30-31 and blood, 130 and Pepys, 151-154 and blood-transfusion experiments, 101 and the Royal Navy, 151-154 and chemistry, 28, 125 and the Royal Society, and Croone, 214 first meeting of, 31-32 and early scientific meetings in London, 24 formal constitution of, 1 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 17, his Presidency of, 147, 150-151 23, 24 and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, 19 his early years, 119-120 and Wallis, 147, 149, 150 and the East India Company, 131-132 and Wren, 150 and Eton College, 120 Bruce, Robert, 251-258 and electricity, 127, 128 and chronometry, 252-254 and Evelyn, 232 and coal, 252 and Hartlib, 22, 121 and Huygens, 253-254 and Harvey, 130 and Moray, 243-244, 251-253, 255, 257 and Hooke, 123, 138 and watches, 252-254 and loadstones, 127 and the Royal Society, and magnetism, 27 first meeting of, 31-32 and Marcombes, 21 formal constitution of, 1 his medical work, 129-131 his New experiments physico-mechan 123, 124 Cambridge University, and Oldenburg, 184, 193, 195-196 and Gresham College, 4 and Petty, 24, 28, 84, 122 Cassini, and phosphorescence, 129 and Ball, 170 his physical research, 123-125, 127-128 Charles II, 39-45 and the Royal Society, formal constitution and Ashmole, 225, 227 of, 1 and Chelsea College, 44 his Sceptical chymist, 126 his childhood, 39-40 and Sthael, 28 and Evelyn, 232, 233 and the Society for the Propagation of the and granting of Charter to Royal Society, Gospel, 131-132 1, 43 and Tallents, 21 and his laboratory, 42, 43 his theological writings, 121 and Moray, 43, 239, 241-242, 246-247 his use of the term ‘Invisible College’, 21-22 and Neile, 160-161 and Wallis, 65 and politics, 41 267 Charles II—continued Cuderian Lectures, and religion, 41 and Hooke, 141, 143 and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 44 Cheapside, Descartes, Rene, early scientific meetings in, 12 his scientific work, 11 Chelsea College, and the Vortex Theory, 62 and Charles II, 44 Digby, Kenelm, 199-210 and Evelyn, 236 and astronomy, 204 and Neile, 164 his early years, 199-201 sale of, 164, 236, 249 his Powder of sympathy, 207 and Wren, 236 and Scanderoon, batde at, 201-202 chemistry, his Two treatises, 205-206 and Boyle, 28, 125-127 his Vegetation of Plants, 204, 208 history of, 125 the Down Survey, and Wallis, 28 and Petty, 83-84 chronometry, and Bruce, 252-254 circulation of the blood, Earth, motion of, and Glisson, 12 and Ball, 170-171 and Harvey, 5, 12 and Hooke, 142, 170-171 and Willis, 95 East India Company, Clark, Timothy, and Boyle, 131-132 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 economics, coal, and Petty, 87-88 and Bruce, 252 electricity, College of Arms, and Boyle’s work on, 127, 128 and Ashmole, 227 Elizabeth I, combustion, and science during her reign, 1 and Hooke, 140 embryology, comets, and Croone, 215 Hooke on, 142 Ent, Sir George, and Rooke, 115 and early scientific meetings in London, 12, Copeman, W. S. C., 18 on Jonathan Goddard, 69-77 equations, roots of, Copernicus, Nicolaus, and Wallis, 64 his De revolutionibus orbium ccelestium, Eton College, Croone, William, 211-219 and Boyle, 120 his appointment as ‘Register’ of the Royal Evelyn, John, 231-238 Society, 32 his attendance at Royal Society meetings, and Boyle, 212, 214 233 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 and Boyle, 232 and embryology, 215 and Charles II, 232, 233 and Gresham College, 212 and Chelsea College, sale of, 236 and meteorology, 218 his Diary, 237, 238 and muscular action, 216-217 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 as physicist, 214 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 25 and Royal College of Physicians, 211, 213- and Neile, 160 214 and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, 19 and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, 20 his Sylva, or a discourse offorest-trees, 234-239 Croonian Lectures, 211 on Wilkins, 50-51 268 Fermat, Pierre de, Graunt, John, and Wallis, 60 his Natural and Political Observations, 86 fossils, and Petty, 86 Hooke on, 143 gravitation, Foster, Hooke on, 143 and Gresham College, 12 Greek manuscripts, restoration of, Freemasonry, and Wallis, 63 and Moray, 245-246 Gregory, David, French Court, and Wallis, 62 and Moray, 240 Gresham College, fuel problems, association of professors of astronomy and and Neile, 161 mathematics with others, 7-8 Fulton, John F., and Cambridge University, 4 on Robert Boyle, 129-13 5 and the Civil War, 11 on Kenelm Digby, 199-210 and Croone, 212 and early scientific meetings at, xl, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 22 Galileo, evacuation of, 72, 150, 174 his astronomical discoveries, 3, 8 first meeting of Royal Society at, 30, 31, 32 his Dialogo, 3 Foster’s lectures at, 12 scientific work of, 10-11 foundation of, 4 his Sidereus Nuncius, 3, 8 and Goddard, 72 gasteropods, and Hill, 173 Wren on spiral form of shells of, n o and Hooke, 139 geology, and Petty, 82 and Hooke, 142, 143 professors of, 4, 5, 6, 7, 212 Gilbert, William, and Rooke, 114 his De magnete, magneti et and Wren’s inaugural lecture as professor de magno magnete te 5, 9 of astronomy, 29-30 Wren’s tribute to, 29 Gresham, Sir Thomas, 4 Glisson, and Gresham College, 4 and early scientific meetings in London, 12 Gunter, Edmund, Goddard, Jonathan, 69-77 his scientific work, 6 and early scientific meetings in London, 12, 70-71 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 12, Haak, Theodore, 17, 24, 26, 92 and early scientific meetings in London, 15, and Gresham College, 72 16 and the Guttae Anglicanae, 74 and Mersenne, 16 Hooke on, 70 and Wallis, 15-16 and Merton College, 71 Hartley, Sir Harold, his Professorship of Physics, 72 his Epilogue, 259 and Royal College of Physicians, 70 his Preface, vii and the Royal Society, Hartley, Sir Harold and Bowen, E. S., first meeting of, 31-32 on Wilkins, John, 47-56 formal constitution of, 1 Hartley, Sir Harold, Payne, L. M., and and ‘secret remedies’, 74-75 Wilson, L. G., and Sprat’s History of the Royal , 20 on Croone, William, 211-219 and Ward, 73 Hartley, Sir Harold and Ronan, C. A. ‘Goddard’s Drops’, 74 on Neile, Paul, 159-165 Hartley, Sir Harold and Scott, J. F., Hooke, Robert—continued on Brouncker, William, 147-157 his geological work, 142, 143 Hartlib, Samuel, and Goddard, 70 on Boyle, 22, 121 and gravitation, 143 Harvey, William, and Gresham College, 139 and Boyle, 130 his Chair at, 8 and circulation of the blood, 5, his hygrometer, 140 his De Motu cordis et sanguinis, 10, 12 and Jupiter, his observations of, 142 heat, his Lectiones Cutlerianae, 141, 143, 170-171 Hooke on, 140 and magnetism, 169 Henshaw, and Mars, his observations of, 142 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 and meteorology, 137, 142 Hevelius, his Micrographia, 139-143 and Wallis, 63 and motion of the Earth, 142, 170-171 Hill, Abraham, 173-182 and Newton, 143 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 and his optical work, 140, 142, 143 and Gresham College, 173 and the Philosophical Collections, 141 and inscription on his gravestone, 178 Posthumous works of, 142 and patent for inventions, 175 • his reputation in science, 137 and public service, 176 and stellar magnitudes, 140 and the Royal Society, and thermal expansion, 140 first meeting of, 31-32 and thermometry, 140 formal constitution of, 1 his universal joint, 142 his service on Royal Society Committees, and Wallis, 63 174 his wheel barometer, 140 his Treasurership of the Royal Society, 174 and Wren, 141 Hobbes, Thomas, Hooke’s law, 137, 143 and Boyle, 65 Hudson Bay Company, and Petty, 81 and Neile, 165 and Wallis, 64-65 Huygens, Christiaan, Holder, William, and Ball, 167-170, 171 and Wallis, 11, 13, 16, 17 and Bruce, 253-254 and Wren, 17 his Horologium Oscillatorium, Hooke, Robert, 137-145 Ball on, 170 and his air-pump, 123 and Moray, 168, 170 his architecture, 141 and Wallis, 149 and artificial silk, 141 hygrometer, and astronomical telescopes, 140, 142 and Hooke, 140 and balance wheel for watch, 138-139 his biological research, 139-140 immersion objectives, and Boyle, 123, 138 Hooke’s design of, 143 and Boyle’s law, 138 ‘Invisible College’, and Brouncker, 154-15 5 use of the term, 21-23 and combustion, 140 iris diaphragm, and comets, his observations on, 142 Hooke’s invention of, 142 his Curatorship of the Royal Society, 139 Isham, Sir Justinian, and early scientific meetings in Oxford, his and Ward, 26 account of, 28 his early years, 138 Josten, C. H., and the Earth, motion of, 142, 170-171 on Elias Ashmole, 221-230 270 Jupiter, Merton College, Oxford, Ball’s observations of, 169-170 and Goddard, 71 Hooke’s observations of, 142 meteorology, Jupiter’s satellites, eclipses of, and Croone, 218 and Rooke, 116 and Hooke, 142 Kincardine, Second Earl of, Bruce, Millington, Thomas, Alexander and Willis, 92 Milton, John, Latitude and longitude, and Oldenburg, 183-184 and Rooke, 115, 116, 117 modern science, Lectiones Cutlerianae, beginnings of, 1-3 and Ball, 170-171 the Moon and Hooke, 170-171 and Wren, 27 loadstones, and longitude determinations from, Rooke Boyle’s work on, 127 on, 115-117 London, Moray, Sir Robert, 239-250 early scientific meetings in, 11-18,19, 23, 24 and astronomy, 248 nature of, 12 and Ball, 168-169 Lower, Richard, and Bruce, 243-244, 251-253, 255, 257 and Sthael, 28 and Charles II, 43, 239, 241-242, 246-247 and Willis, 92-93 and freemasonry, 245-246 lunar eclipses, and the French court, 240 and Rooke, 116 and Huygens, 168, 170 his Masonic sign, 245 McKie, D., his military career, 240-241 on the origins and foundations of the and Neile, 162-164 Royal Society, 1-37 and Richelieu, 240 Maddison, R. E. W ., and the Royal Society, on Abraham Hill, 173-182 first meeting of, 31-32 magnetism, formal constitution of, 1, 243 and Ball, 167-168 his scientific interests, 246-248 and Boyle, 27 and Scotland, 242 and Hooke, 169 and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, 19, and Wren, 27 20 Marcombes, and watches, 253 and Boyle, 21 and Whitehall Palace, 246 Mars, muscular action, Hooke’s observations of, 142 and Croone, 216-217 Martin, D. C., on Robert Moray, 239-250 Neile, Sir Paul, 159-165 Masson, Sir Irvine andjYoungson, A. J., and astronomical telescopes, 159 on William Petty, 251-258 and Ball, 167-168 mathematics, and Brouncker, 30-31 and Brouncker, 147, 148-149 and Chelsea College, 164 and Wallis, 149 and Charles II, 160-161 and Wren, 150 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 Merrit, and fuel problems, 161 and early scientific meetings in London, 12 and Gresham College, 30 Mersenne, and Hudson Bay Company, 165 and Haak, 16 and Moray, 162-164 271 Neile, Sir Paul—continued Petty, Sir William, 79-9° and the Royal Society, Aubrey on, 82 first meeting of, 31-32 and Boyle, 24, 28, 84, 122 formal constitution of, 1 and double-bottomed vessel, his design of, and Saturn, rings of, 159, 161, 162-164 85 and the semi-cubical parabola, his invention and the Down Survey, 83-84 of, 30-31 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 13, and Wallis, 30 17, 23, 28 and Wren, 159-162 and economics, 87-88 Newton, Sir Isaac, and Graunt, 86 his mathematics compared with Wren’s, and Gresham College, 82 107 and Hartlib, 24 and Oldenburg, 194-195 and Hobbes, 81 his Principia, 141-143 his inventions, 27 and Wallis, 59-60 his lodgings, and meetings at, 82 and his Political Arithmetick, 87-88 Oldenburg, Henry, 183-197 his professorship of anatomy, 82 and Ball, 170 and the Royal Society, and Boyle, 184, 193, 195-196 first meeting of, 31-32 his character, 194-197 formal constitution of, 1 his foreign correspondence, 185-186 and scientific meetings in Oxford, 26 and Milton, 183-184 and Sprat’s History of the Royal Society, 20 and Newton, 194-195 his Vice-Presidency of the Royal Society, and the Philosophical Transactions, 189-193 85 his Secretaryship of the Royal Society, 185, the Philosophical Society of Oxford, 26 187-189 the Philosophical Transactions, his translations of Boyle’s works, 193 and Oldenburg, 189-193 and Williamson, 185-186 phonetics, optics, and Wallis, 65 and Hooke, 140, 142, 143 phosphorescence, Oughtred, William, Boyle on, 129 his mathematical work, 7 plants, Oxford, accurate observations of in the sixteenth early scientific meetings in, 12-14, 17-18, century, 3 23-26, 28 politics, nature of 18, 25 and Charles II, 41 rules of, 25-26 quadrature of circles, Payne, L. M., Wilson, L. G., and Hartley, Sir and Wallis, 58 Harold, on William Croone, 211-219 refractometer, Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge, Hooke’s design of, 143 and Wren, 102 religion, Pepys, Samuel, and Charles II, 41 and Brouncker, 151-154 Renaissance, and the Royal Navy, 151-154 importance of in science, 3 his Presidency of the Royal Society, 155- Richelieu, 156 and Moray, 240 and Wallis, 66 Ronan, C. A., and Wilkins, 54 on Laurence Rooke, 113-118 272 Ronan, C. A., and Hartley, Sir Harold, Royal Society—continued on Paul Neile, 159-165 Secretaryship of, Rooke, Laurence, 113-118 and Hill, 174 and comets, 115 and Oldenburg, 184-185, 187-189 his Directions for Sea-men, 115 and Sprat, 19 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 and Stubbe, 20 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 17 Treasurership of, and Gresham College, 114 and Hill, 174 and Jupiter’s satellites, eclipses of, 116 Vice-Presidency of, and latitude and longitude, 115-117 and Petty, 85 and lunar eclipses, 116 and Oughtred, 7 and Royal Society, St Paul’s Cathedral, first meeting of, 31-32 and Wren, 102 formal constitution of, 1 Saturn, and Wadham College, 113 and Ball, 161, 167-170 and Ward, 115 and Cassini, 170 Royal College of Physicians, and changes in appearance of, 161-162 and Croone, 211, 213-214 and Huygens, 162, 163, 167-170 and Goddard, 70 and Neile, 159, 161, 162-164, 167-168 and Wallis, 167 Royal Navy, and Brouncker, 151-154 and Wren, 100, 159, 161-164, 167-168 and Pepys, 151-154 Scanderoon, and Digby, 201-202 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Scarborough, Sir Charles, and Charles II, 44 and early scientific meetings in London, Royal Society, 12-15 and Charles 11, 35, 36 Scotland, ‘declaration’ of members, 35 and Moray, 242 early membership of, 32-35 Scott, J. F., early scientific meetings leading to forma­ on John Wallis, 57-67 tion of, 11-18 Scott, J. F., and Hartley, Sir Harold its first Charter, 1, 72-73 on William Brouncker, 147-157 formation of, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, and Bacon, 9 and Wren, 100, 102, 103 foundation meeting of, 1, 31-32, 50, 72-73, Slingsby, 74, 225, 233, 243, 255 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 memorandum of first meeting, 31-32, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and those concerned in formulating it, and Boyle, 131-132 32-33 Sprat, Thomas, original list of those suitable for member­ and Brouncker, 19 ship of, 33-34 and Evelyn, 19 origins of, his History of the Royal Society of , and Wallis, 11-18, 36 17-18, 20 Presidency of, and Moray, 19 and Brouncker, 147, 150-151, 155 and Oldenburg, 19 and Pepys, 155-156 and the Royal Society, 19 and Wren, 133 and Wilkins, 19, 51, 52 rules of, at its formation, 35-36 stars, magnitudes of, its second Charter, 1 and Hooke, 140 273 Sthael, Peter, Wallis, John, 57-67 his teaching of chemistry, 28 his appointment to Custos Archivorum at Stubbe, Henry, Oxford, 61 his criticism of the Royal Society, 20 his Arithmetica Infinitorum, 59, 149 Summerson, Sir John, his account of the origins of the Royal on Christopher Wren, 99-105 Society, 11-17, 23-26 sun, his additions to Sprat’s History of the Royal Ball’s observations of, 169 Society, 20 symbols for writing, and Brouncker, 147, 150 and Wilkins, 55 and chemistry, his work on, 28 Symonds, Sir Charles, his A Defence of the Royal Society, 11, 16, 18 on Thomas Willis, 91-97 and early scientific meetings in London, 11- 18, 22, 32 and early scientific meetings at Oxford, Tallents, Francis, 12- 14, 17* 23-26, 92 and Boyle, 21 and equations, roots of, 64 telescopes, astronomical and Fermat, 60 Hooke on, 140, 142 and geometry, professorship of, 58 and Neile, 159 as grammarian, 65 and Wilkins, 28 his Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae, 65 and Wren, 28, 159 and Gregory, 62 theology, and Hevelius, 63 Boyle on, 121 and Hobbes, controversy with, 64 and Wallis, 65 and Holder, 11, 13, 16, 17 thermometry, and Hooke, 63 and Hooke, 140 and Huygens, 149 tissues, animal, and mathematics, 58 Boyle on, 128-129 compared to Wren’s, 107 Tradescant Collection, and his Mechanica, sive De and Ashmole, 226-228 Geometricus, 62 Trinity College, Cambridge, and mechanics, 62 and Wilkins, 47, 49 and Neile, 30 and Newton, 59-60 universal language, and Oughtred, 7 and Wilkins, 52 and Pepys, 66 and phonetics, 65 and quadrature of circles, 58 vacuum, and restoration of Greek manuscripts, 63 and Aristotelian arguments against, 10 and the Royal Society, origins of, 11-18 Vesalius, Andreas, and Scarborough, 15 his De humatti corporis fabr2 and Sthael, 28 as theologian, 65 Wadham College, his Treatise of Algebra, 63-64 early scientific meetings at, 13, 17, 18, 20, and Wilkins, 19 23, 25-28, 31, 71 and Wren, no and Rooke, 113 Ward, Seth, Sprat on, 71 his De cometis, 115 and Ward, 51 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 13, and Wilkins, 47, 49, 51 17, 23, 24 and Wren, 51 and Goddard, 73 274 Ward, Seth—continued Willis, Thomas, 91-97 and Isham, 26 and blood, circulation of, 95 and Oughtred, 7 and the brain, 92-94 and Rooke, 115 his Cerebri anatome ner descriptio et and scientific meetings in Oxford, his usus, 92-93 account of, 26-27 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, 13, and Wadham College, 51 14, 17, 24, 26, 92 watches, and Lower, 92-93 and Bruce, 252-254 and Millington, 92 and Moray, 253 his O f the palsie, 95 and Huygens, 253-254 and Wood, 93 Wharton, Thomas, and Wren, 92 and Ashmole, 222, 224 Wilson, L. G., Payne, L. M., and Hartley, Sir Whitehall Palace, Harold, and Moray, 246 on William Croone, 211-219 Whiteside, Derek T. Wood, Anthony, on Wren the Mathematician, 107-111 his Athenae Oxoniensis, 93 Wilkins, John, 47-56 and Willis, 93 and astronomical telescopes, 28 W ren, Sir Christopher, 99-105, 107-111 and Boyle, 24, 50 as architect, 99, i l l his Chairmanship of first meeting of the and Ashmole, 224 Royal Society, 32 and anatomy, 27 his A discourse concerning a new planet, 53 and astronomical telescopes, 28, 159 his The discovery of a world in the moone, 52 and Ball, 167-168 and early scientific meetings in London, 11, and blood-transfusion experiments, 101 19, 22 and Boyle, 101 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, and building works at Tangier, 102 12, 13, 17, 23, 24, 26, 49 and his Chair at Gresham College, 8 his Ecclesiastes, or a discourse concerning the and Chelsea College, 236 gift of preaching, 51 curriculum vitae of, 104-105 his An Essay towards a real character, 54, 55 his diversity of scientific interests, 28-29 and Evelyn, 50-51 his draughtsmanship, 100, 107 his inventions, 50-51 and early scientific meetings in London, 18 his Mathematical magick, 53, 54 as experimental philosopher, 99 and meetings at Oxford, 92 and Gilbert, his tribute to, 29 and his Mercury, or the secret and swift and Holder, 17 messenger, 53 and Hooke, 141 and Pepys, 54 and human brain, his drawings of, 100 and the Royal Society, and humidity, measures of, 27, first meeting of, 31-32 his inaugural lecture as professor of formal constitution of, 1, 50 astronomy at Gresham College, 29-30 and Sprat, 19, 20, 51-52 and Kepler’s problem, 108-109 and symbols, 55 and magnetism, 27 and Trinity College, Cambridge, 47, 49 his mathematics, 107-111 and a universal language, 52 and the microscope, 27 and Wadham College, 47, 49, 71 his model-making, 100 and Wallis, 19 and the Moon, 27 and Wren, 28 and Neile, 159, 162 Williamson, Sir Joseph, and optics, 109 and Oldenburg, 185, 186 and Oughtred, 7 275 Wren, Sir Christopher—continued Wren, Sir Christopher—continued and Pembroke College Chapel, 102 and Wilkins, 28 and the Royal Society, Wren, Matthew, first meeting of, 31-32 and early scientific meetings in Oxford, formal constitution of, 1 Wren, Stephen, his Presidency of, 133 his Parentalia, 28 and St Paul’s Cathedral, 102-103 and Saturn, 100, 159, 161-164 and Sheldonian Theatre, 100, 102, 103 Youngson, A. 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