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The Baroque Cycle, by Neal Stephenson, has a highly entertaining historical fiction treatment of the Royal Society, Newton and other main characters.



The grotesque experiment on the dog by Hooke described in the book is outlined here:

http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/23-32/539

The Royal Society had open up their complete archives a few years ago for a period and I fished this out then.


I saw the paper referenced at the Trailblazing website. It's a nice visual way of exploring some of the most notable papers from the Royal Society.

http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/




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