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Daston, "Baconian Facts, Academic Civility, and the Prehistory of Objectivity," Annals ofScholarship 8 (r99r): 337-63; L. Daston, "The Ideal and Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment," Science in Context 4 (1991): 367-86.

9 E. Tyson, Phocaena, Or the Anatomy of a Porpess, Dissected at Gresham College (London: B. Tooke, 168o), sig. A2 ; compare (among many other examples) A. M[ullen], AnAnatomical Accountof the Elephant accidentally burnt in Dublin (London: S. Smith, 1682), 3; W. Petty, The Discourse made before the Royal Society ... Concerning the Use of Duplicate Proportion (London: J. Martyn, 1674), sigs. A3K-A4', A8`-`; and C. Havers, Osteologia Nova (London: S. Smith, 1691), sigs. A3K-A4°

10 A. Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 475-91-

11 E.g., T. Birch, ed., The History of the Royal Society ofLondon, 4 vols. (London: A Millar, 1756-57),1:487. The pursuit of conversation in weeks following a perusal report was expressly recommended by the Society in 1674, because such reports were becoming technical enough to preclude immediate responses: Birch, History, 111:153.

12 For remarks on registration and civility see Shapin, Social History of Truth, 302-4.

13 Royal Society C1.P. XX, fol. 92r.

14 Johns, Nature of the Book, ch. 7,489; A. Johns, "Miscellaneous Methods: Authors, Societies and Journals in Early Modern England," British Journal for the History of Science 33 (2000): 159-86.

15 M. Knights, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 272-334; D. Freist, Governed by Opinion: Politics, Religion and the Dynamics of Communication in Stuart London, 1637 1645 (London: Tauris, 1997);J. Raymond, Pamphlets and Patnph. leteeringin Early Modern Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 331-55.

16 For Hooke's controversy, see R. C. Iliffe, "`In the Warehouse': Privacy, Property and Priority in the Early Royal Society," History of.Science, 30 (1992): 29-68; for another example, see G. S{inclair], The Hydrostaticks (Edinburgh: printed by G. Swintoun, J. Glen, and T. Brown, 1672), 146, and the separately paginated Vindication of the Preface appended to this volume, esp. 4-8.

17 Birch, History, II:5o1; II1:1-3.

18 Iliffe, "`In the Warehouse."'

19 Birch, History, 111:4, 9, 20.

20 Birch, History, III:1o-15.

21 Birch, History, III:16,18-19, 52, 63.

22 Birch, History, 111:318; S.J. Schaffer, "Glass Works: Newton's Prisms and the Uses of Experiment," in The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural ,Sciences, ed. D. Gooding, T. Pinch, and S.J. Schaffer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 67-104, esp. 85.

23 Birch, History, 111:269. In fact, Hooke bought Grimaldi's tract only in 1679: H. W. Robison and W. Adams, eds., The Diary of Robert Hooke ... 1672-1680 (London: Taylor & Francis, 1935), 417-

24 Birch, History, 111:278-79-

25 R. S. Westfall, NeveratRest.•ABiography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980),274-80,310; Schaffer, "Glass Works," 89-91.

26 I. Newton The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, ed. H. W. Turnbull, J. F. Scott, A. R. Hall, and L. Tilling, 7 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959-77), 1:317-19, 328-29, 358-65-

27 Johns, "Miscellaneous Methods," 182-83; Johns, Nature of the Book, 521-31; Birch, History, IV:,96; R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, 15 vols. (Oxford: for the subscribers, 1923-67), 7:434-36.

28 Birch, History, IV.347, 480; I. Newton, The Principia, trans. I. B. Cohen and A. Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 11-13; D. B. Meli, Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), 95-125; A. R. Hall, Philosophers at War: The .Quarrel bewteen Newton and Leibniz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980); Johns, Nature of the Book, ch. 8; R. C. Iliffe, "`Is He like Other Men?' The Meaning of the Principia Mathematica, and the Author as Idol," in Culture andSociety in the StuartRestoration: Literature, Drama, History, ed. G. MacLean

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