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- Robert Hooke
- 1635-1703, English
- Royal Society of London
- (1660-present); founded by English Baconians. Secured royal charter from King Charles II in 1662, but remained amateur and self-supporting.
- Emilie du Chatelet
- 1706-1749. French
- Accademia dei Lincei
- Rome; founded 1603 by Federico Cesi; added Galileo in 1611; focused on natural history and Galilean physics; broke up after Cesi's death in 1630
- Voltaire
- 1694-1778, French
- Christiaan Huygens
- 1629-1695, Dutch
- Montmor Academy
- (1640s-50s), Paris; fashionable scientific salon.
- Robert Boyle
- 1627-1691, English
- Mersenne
- (1588-1648), Paris; 'one-man scientific journal.'
- John Locke
- 1632-1704, English
- Isaac Newton
- 1642-1727, English
- Academia del Cimento
- Florence; founded 1657 by Leopoldo de Medici. Promoted experimentation; broke up around 1667
- Philosophical Transactions
- 1665,, launch by secretary of Royal Society of London Henry Oldenburg, first scientific journal, still published today
- Academie des Sciences
- Paris (1666-present) Elite group of professionals recruited from throughout Europe and paid by French state; combination of expert consultants and ornaments of the court