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This anthology documents the effect of Bacon's ideas in the remarkably fruitful period following 1660. It includes his sketch of a scientific research institute in the New Atlantis (1627), which inspired the founding of the Royal Society in 1662, as acknowledged by Thomas Sprat in its History, excerpted here.Vickers, Brian is the author of 'English Science, Bacon to Newton' with ISBN 9780521316835 and ISBN 0521316839.
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