Math & science · 1660

Royal Society

London founds a society to test claims by experiment, motto 'take nobody's word for it'.

The Royal Society and the Paris Academy (1666) created the scientific journal, with Philosophical Transactions from 1665. Peer communication made science cumulative and public.

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Scientific method 1620

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