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[ Pepys's Diary, May 30, 1667.]
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[ Butler was, I think, the only man of real genius who, between the Restoration and the Revolution showed a bitter enmity to the new philosophy, as it was then called. See the Satire on the Royal Society, and the Elephant in the Moon.]
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[ The eagerness with which the agriculturists of that age tried experiments and introduced improvements is well described by Aubrey. See the Natural history of Wiltshire, 1685.]
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[ Sprat's History of the Royal Society.]
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[ Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, London Gazette, May 31, 1683; North's Life of Guildford.]