Scientific Societies

The natural result of the success of the experimental method was the conviction that it would be even more effective if undertaken by cooperative groups, something in the manner so picturesquely described by Bacon in The New Atlantis. In any case, the seventeenth century was a gregarious age, and societies for the advancement of learning—especially for the study of literature and philology—had long been in existence when the first formal scientific societies took shape. The scientific societies were very much a feature of the middle of the century, languishing rather as the decades proceeded, to be revived again at the beginning of the next century.

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