A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe].

The image of Restoration science : the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) / Michael Hunter ; with a chapter on the instruments / by Jim Bennett.

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Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713. History of the Royal-Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge

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A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe].

The image of Restoration science : the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) / Michael Hunter ; with a chapter on the instruments / by Jim Bennett.