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Title: Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic sites
Publisher: London : C. Knight
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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meet togetherand form themselves into a club, where the distracting subjects ofpolitics and religion should be excluded, so that Cavalier and Par-liamentarian, Episcopalian and Puritan, might meet in harmony onthe same common ground, of desire to enlarge the boundaries oflearning—and, what is an inevitable consequence, at the sametime enlarge their own minds. A German, Mr. llaak, had thehonour of originating the idea; which was speedily adopted by Dr.Wilkins, afterwards Bishop of Chester; Waller, the famous mathe-matical scholar; Goddard and Ent, well-known physicians; withothers of kindred views, including Foster, the professor of astro-nomy of Gresham College. They met where they found it mostconvenient—sometimes at the houses of members, sometimes inGresham College. Boyle called them the Invisible Society.Wilkins, Waller, and Goddard went to Oxford in 1651, havingobtained appointments there, and speedily drew around themothers who could help them to carry on at Oxford a similar
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LB1 ;m i)N, inn-* CHRIST CHURCH HALL, OXFORD. Chap. II.) OLD ENGLAND. 291 society. Doctors Seth Ward, Bathurst, Petty, and an eminentphysician of the name of Willis, with Rooke, whose name is toowell known to need illustration, joined them. At first they met atPettys lodgings, in the house of an apothecary, who gave themaccess to his drugs for the purposes of examination. A little laterBoyle, who had joined them, accommodated them occasionally inhis apartments, he being then settled at Oxford. But the chiefplace of meeting seems to have been in this great room over thegateway of Wadham College, where they were the guests of Dr.Wilkins. In 1659, the chief members of the society found them-selves again in London, united to the former association, and withone man of no ordinary mark or likelihood, among many others,joined to their numbers, Christopher Wren. Two years after theRestoration, Charles II. granted them a charter of incorporation,and the Royal Society was firmly established in

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