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* The Great Instauration

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Scirnce, Medicine and Reform 1626-SU
Hugh Trevor-Roper , Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, considers a major new study of the scientific developments of the period of Puritan rule, The Great Instauration by CHARLES WEBSTER. The Puritans believed that their rule would lead to a new age in which Bacon's instauratio magna, or rebirth of knowledge, would be realised.

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Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Charles Webster.
Source: Radio Times

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