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To: c.hinton who wrote (252623)	12/30/2007 1:55:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

hey ch, maybe you should read more carefully next time, and note the difference between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries...the first growth of a new scientific establishment separate from the scholastic tradition, favoring empiricism was born in the SEVENTEENTH century, following Galileo and Pascal. We were talking about the SIXTEENTH century, remember? It consisted of a group of scientists including Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, John Wallis, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and William Petty. In letters in 1646 and 1647, Boyle refers to "our invisible college" or "our philosophical college". The society's common theme was to acquire knowledge through experimental investigation