Royal Society
Subtitle: And the Invention of Modern Science
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781541673588
Subjects: Royal society (great britain); Science, great britain; Science, history
Description: "Historian Adrian Tinniswood recounts the founding and history of the Royal Society, created and devoted to advancing knowledge through experimentation. The 8,000 fellows elected to the Society since its founding in London in 1662 include all of the scientific leading lights of the last four centuries, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Tim Berners-Lee, and Stephen Hawking"--