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In the year 1660 the Royal Society was founded by royal favor in London, although in reality its inception took place in 1645 when the Philosophical Society (or, as Boyle called it, the Invisible College came into being, which held meetings at Gresham College in London and later in Oxford. It was during the second half Of the seventeenth century that Sir Isaac Newton, surrounded by a group of great men - Wallis, Hooke, Barrow, Halley, Cotes - carried on his epoch-making researches in mathe matics, astronomy, and physics. But it is not this half century of science in England, nor any Of its great men, that especially engage our attention in this monograph. It is rather the half-century preceding, an epoch of prepara tion, when in the early times of the House of Stuart the sciences began to flourish in England. Says Dr. A. E. Shipley: Whatever were the political and moral de ficiencies of the Stuart kings, no one of them lacked intel ligence in things artistic and scientific. It was at this time that mathematics, and particularly algebra, began to be cultivated with greater zeal, when elementary alge bra with its symbolism as we know it now began to take its Shape.
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In the year 1660 the Royal Society was founded by royal favor in London, although in reality its inception took place in 1645 when the Philosophical Society (or, as Boyle called it, the Invisible College came into being, which held meetings at Gresham College in London and later in Oxford. It was during the second half Of the seventeenth century that Sir Isaac Newton, surrounded by a group of great men - Wallis, Hooke, Barrow, Halley, Cotes - carried on his epoch-making researches in mathe matics, astronomy, and physics. But it is not this half century of science in England, nor any Of its great men, that especially engage our attention in this monograph. It is rather the half-century preceding, an epoch of prepara tion, when in the early times of the House of Stuart the sciences began to flourish in England. Says Dr. A. E. Shipley: Whatever were the political and moral de ficiencies of the Stuart kings, no one of them lacked intel ligence in things artistic and scientific. It was at this time that mathematics, and particularly algebra, began to be cultivated with greater zeal, when elementary alge bra with its symbolism as we know it now began to take its Shape.
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