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This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Designed by John Evelyn, and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, it is arguably the best-known representation of seventeenth-century English science. The use of such plates to celebrate and legitimise the 'new' science of the period falls into a tradition that was

Title : The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667)
Author : Michael Hunter
Language : en
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