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Academies of Science in the Seventeenth Century, 9-10 Air, And 265 INDEX 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
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