TY - BOOK ID - 7592041 TI - Promoting experimental learning : experiment and the Royal Society 1660-1727 PY - 1991 SN - 0521405033 0521892651 0511622414 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 378.4 <41 LONDON> KW - Science KW - -Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Universiteiten--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON KW - Experiments KW - -History KW - -Royal Society (Great Britain) KW - -Royal Society of London KW - Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge KW - Kraljeva družba (Great Britain) KW - Ying-kuo huang chia hsüeh hui KW - Societas Regia KW - Soc. Reg. Lond. KW - Towarzystwo Królewskie w Londynie KW - History KW - -378.4 <41 LONDON> KW - -Universiteiten--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON KW - 378.4 <41 LONDON> Universiteiten--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--LONDON KW - Royal society KW - -Science KW - Natural science KW - Royal Society (Great Britain) KW - Royal society of London KW - Natural sciences KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Royal society (GB) KW - Expériences KW - 1660-1727 KW - Royal society of london (grande-bretagne) KW - Experiences KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7592041 AB - In spite of all that has been written in the past decades about the first half-century of the Royal Society's existence, no one has so far examined just what took place at the Society's weekly meetings nor how far they fulfilled the expressed aim of promoting 'experimental learning'. Students of the early Royal Society have often taken its aim to have been fully expressed in the writings of such Fellows as Boyle, Hooke and Newton, aware that Hooke especially performed very many experiments at the meetings between 1662 and 1703, while he and others wrote about the necessity of doing so. This study attempts to analyse the content of the meetings in detail in order to discover how far and in what manner the aims of the Society were fulfilled in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This book for the first time explores the practices of the Society's Fellows, and shows how these altered between 1660 and 1727. ER -