Royal Society
An edition of Royal Society (2019)
And the Invention of Modern Science
By Adrian Tinniswood
Publish Date
2019
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
eng
Pages
248
Description:
"Historian Adrian Tinniswood recounts the founding and history of the Royal Society, created and devoted to advancing knowledge through experimentation. The 8,000 fellows elected to the Society since its founding in London in 1662 include all of the scientific leading lights of the last four centuries, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Tim Berners-Lee, and Stephen Hawking"--