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‘Your very obliging correspondence’: the Royal Society and the provincial Republic of Letters in Georgian Lincolnshire (2021)

Sims, Liam (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 77
Issue: 1
Pages: 191-212

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2021.0053

URI: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2021.0053

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Rural-urban interactions Correspondence and corresponding Societies; institutions; academies 18th century Great Britain Royal Society of London

It has been said that the Royal Society of the eighteenth century was in decline. The ground-breaking experimentation of the Restoration period was long gone, to be followed by talk rather than action, and the pages of Philosophical Transactions were filled with papers by provincial clergymen on natural curiosities and antiquities. But the links between the Royal Society and the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (SGS)—founded in 1712 and still in existence as the country's longest-lived provincial learned society—show a connection not just between city and country, but between scientific and antiquarian research, fields that had not yet assumed their distinct modern forms. A fruitful correspondence existed between the two societies for several decades in the first half of the century, and a number of Fellows (including Newton) became honorary members of the SGS. In this article, I show that the SGS did not simply rely on its metropolitan connections for intellectual sustenance, but rather, that this joint association allowed it to flourish as a dynamic society that cultivated international networks.

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