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CATEGORIES:Cabinet of Natural History
SUMMARY:Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth
  century - Alice Marples (King's College London)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/63633
DESCRIPTION:By the end of the seventeenth century\, the Royal 
 Society was buckling under the weight of its own a
 mbition: it was deep in debt and lacking in both c
 onfidence and members. Most histories cite the pre
 sidency of Isaac Newton as halting this decline br
 iefly before the Society descended into a period o
 f amateurism and antiquarianism. This paper shall 
 posit a different explanation by outlining the ran
 ge of internal administrative reforms undertaken b
 y Hans Sloane (1660–1753) and other officers betwe
 en 1700 and 1740\, and their effects. Of particula
 r importance is the conscious consolidation and ex
 pansion of the Society's correspondence networks\,
  and the ways in which Sloane blurred the Society'
 s resources with his own in order to re-establish 
 the Society as a necessary node in scientific know
 ledge production. I argue that Sloane's work as a 
 natural history collector at the centre of many di
 fferent networks is linked to a deliberate shift i
 n the role and purpose of the Society\, from rulin
 g over matters of fact to facilitating the work of
  others and providing a repository of information 
 to discuss. Rather than being a symptom of the 'de
 cline' of the Royal Society in the early eighteent
 h century\, this was a key element of its revival.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
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