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 Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:13 am Post subject: Obituary: Rupert Hall (Guardian Unlimited) |
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Pioneering historian of science and editor of Isaac Newton's letters Next year the Royal Society will be celebrating its 350th anniversary. We owe much of our understanding of this body and its working to the historian Rupert Hall, who has died aged 88, and his wife Marie Boas Hall. In 1949, Herbert Butterfield, in The Origins of Modern Science, 1300-1800, summoned historians to take seriously a ...
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