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Invisible College : ウィキペディア英語版 | Invisible College
The Invisible College has been described as a precursor group to the Royal Society of London, consisting of a number of natural philosophers around Robert Boyle. It has been suggested that other members included prominent figures later closely concerned with the Royal Society;〔Such as John Wilkins, John Wallis, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Francis Glisson, Christopher Wren and William Petty.〕 but scholarly debate persists as several groups formed before that of the Royal Society, and which members joined one organization before the other. ==Background==
The concept of "invisible college" is mentioned in German Rosicrucian pamphlets in the early 17th century. Ben Jonson in England referenced the idea, related in meaning to Francis Bacon's House of Solomon, in a masque ''The Fortunate Isles and Their Union'' from 1624/5.〔Frances Yates, ''Collected Essays'' Vol. III (1984), p. 253.〕 The term accrued currency for the exchanges of correspondence within the Republic of Letters.〔David A. Kronick, ''The Commerce of Letters: Networks and "Invisible Colleges" in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe'', The Library Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), pp. 28-43; Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4309484〕
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