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The centrepiece of this remarkable book is the transcribed minutes, now in Oxford's Museum of History of Science, of a club of London natural philosophers who met fortnightly during the 1780s to exchange scientific information, discuss experiments, and consider industrial applications of their findings. The editors present a clear, uncluttered text that involves the reader in the chemical controversies of the 1780s. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences The book will be a most valuable source for eighteenth-century science ... fascinating glimpses of national and international linkages. British Journal for the History of Science ... anybody interested in experimental science at this important period (particularly for the history of chemistry) should read these minutes. They have been unobtrusively and helpfully annotated ... we get the society placed carefully in its context, and get a valuable mix of primary and secondary material: it will be very useful. Ambix

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