England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
Formation of the Royal Society, 1662. Burnet: History of his own Times, Lond., 1724, fol., vol. i., p. 192, 193.
The men that formed the Royal Society in London were Sir Robert Murray, the Lord Brouncker, a profound mathematician, and Dr. Ward, soon after promoted to Exeter, and afterwards removed to Salisbury . ... Many physicians and other ingenious men went into the society for natural philosophy. But he who laboured most, at the greatest charge, and with the most success at experiments, was Robert Boyle, the earl of Cork's youngest son . ... The Society for philosophy grew so considerably that they thought fit to take out a patent; which constituted them a body, by the name of the Royal Society of which Sir Robert Murray was the first President, Bishop Ward the second, and the Lord Brouncker the third, their history is writ . . . by Dr. Sprat. | |