...at a convenient place in Cheapside, and sometimes at Gresham College, or some place near adjoining. Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physic, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, statics, magnetics, chemics, mechanics, and natural...

...and that of the first of English economists, Sir William Petty. " Our business," Wallis tells us, " was (precluding matters of theology and State affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical inquiries and such as related thereunto, as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Statics,...

...College, or some place near adjoining. Our business was (precluding matters of theology and state ffairs) to discourse and consider of Philosophical Enquiries, and such as related thereunto : as physic, anatomy, geometry, astronomy, navigation, statics, magnetics, chemics, mechanics, and natural...

...The following is the account given in 1696 by Dr. Wallis, one of the founders of the Society : — " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks. Chyraicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments ; with the state of these studies and their cultivation...

...cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : — " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magnetieks, Chymicks, Mechanicks, and Natural Experiments ; with the state of these studies and their...

...cannot be stated more clearly than in the words of one of the founders of the organization : — 5 " Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...affairs) to discourse and consider of philosophical inquiries, and such as related thereunto : — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy,0 Navigation,...

...ended, repaired, sometimes to Mr. Foster's lodgings, sometimes to some other place not far distant]. ' Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Natural Experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home and abroad. We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves...

...ended, repaired, sometimes to Mr. Foster's lodgings, sometimes to some other place not far distant]. ' Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks, Mechan- \ icks, and Natural Experiments ; with the state of these studies, as then cultivated at home...

...been as little noticed, as they were conspicuous. Some twenty years before the outbreak of the plague a few calm and thoughtful students banded themselves...consider of philosophical enquiries, and such as related thereunto:—as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks,...

...London, constituting the so-called invisible college, which grew into the Royal Society. He says : Our business was (precluding matters of theology and...consider of philosophical enquiries and such as related thereto: — as Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Staticks, Magneticks, Chymicks,...