„ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON” – EXPRESIE A SPIRITULUI ŞTIINŢIFIC ILUMINIST DIN ANGLIA SEC. XVI–XVII
„Royal Society of London” and the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment in XVIth and XVIIth Century of England

Summary/Abstract: The ideological influences suffered by thefounding members of the Royal Society of London materialized in a philosophicaldoctrine of Enlightenment and Rationalism, focusing on scientific observation andexperimental analysis; empiricism was a general methodological approach to verifyingtheories and obtaining scientific information, and the interest in natural laws, cosmic orderresearch, and trust in the beneficial power of human reason were the cornerstones of theRoyal Society of London's work. From an ethical point of view, their approach was inthe horizon of a humanistic and anthropocentric vision, accompanied by moderateskepticism, but which led, on a religious realm, to the formation of a deaf concept

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