Solomon's Child. Method in the Early Royal Society of London. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)

William T. Lynch. Solomon's Child Method in the Early Royal Society of London. (Writing Science.) Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 292. $60.00. ISBN 0-8047-3291-4.

This is a significant book, shifting seventeenth-century natural philosophy back to its Baconian roots, searching for the inheritance of method and practice instead of languishing in the thicket of rhetoric that has so often clouded the legacy of the great Lord Chancellor. William Lynch is surely right that it was the assertion, in the early Royal Society, of "active experimentation" ...

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