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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

From Utopia by John Beale.

Reference number: MS/366/1/6

Date: 28 January 1682

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Transcribed by Jonathan Taylor 8 April 1683

With an end-note by Jonathan Taylor: 'A sudden death ravishing the life of this Learned Author away, prevented the finishing of this Treatise... Aprill 8th, 1683'.

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MS/366/1/6
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28 January 1682
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29 pages
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From Utopia by John Beale., 28 January 1682, MS/366/1/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_366_1_6/from-utopia-by-john-beale, accessed on 07 March 2026

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