"About the middle of this [17th] century... mathematical and physical investigations were pursued in every part of the civilized world with an enthusiasm before unknown. The new mode of improving knowledge by collecting facts, associated a number labourers in the same pursuit. It was felt that the whole of nature was yet to be investigated... distinct subjects connected with utility... sufficient to employ all enquirers, yet tending to the common end of promoting the progress of the human mind. Learned bodies were formed in Italy, England, and France, for the purpose of the interchange of opinions, the combination of labour and division of expense in performing new experiments, and the accumulation and diffusion of knowledge. The Academy del Cimento was established in 1651 under the patronage of the Duke of Tuscany; the of London, in 1660; the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, in 1666."
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