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Excerpt from The New Science and English Literature in the Classical Period
As early as 1645 this common interest in England had drawn to gether a group of men, who had grown weary of the political and religious turmoil of the times.16 These men began a series of weekly meetings in the lecture room of the Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College. There was at first no definite organization or plan of procedure, although by 1651 there were rules printed in tended for regulating the election of members, (fines for defaults 2s. And even setting the time of meetings, - every Thursday, before two of the clock.17 This company was called by Sir Robert Boyle, an early member, the invisible College.18 Their discussions were limited by agreement to the New Philosophy, i. E. To a study of things around them in nature, what they could see, touch, feel, or hear, (not meddling with Divinity, Meta physicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric, or Logic) 1'
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