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Excerpt from Students in the Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: A Paper Read at the General Meeting of the I. A. A. M
In Stuart times an investigator was not hampered by the modern introduction of technical words into the sciences. He could explain in simple language to his friends what he was doing, and the advance of natural science was keenly followed by all sorts and conditions of men. King Charles II took a curious interest in anatomy; on May Pierce, the surgeon, tells Pepys that the other day Dr. Clerke and he d1d dissect two bodies, a man and a woman, before the King with which the King was highly pleased. Pepys also records, February 17, on the authority of Edward Pickering, another story of a dissection in the royal closet by the king's own hands.
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