The Royal Society (In Our Time)
1660 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the formation of the Royal Society. In the 17th century the natural philosopher Francis Bacon heralded the new age of science. The frontispiece to his 1620 edition of the Instauratio Magna depicted a galleon travelling between the metaphorical Pillars of Hercules thought to lie at the Strait of Gibraltar and believed to mark t
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Around 1660
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)