John Aubrey (1626 97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. He is remembered as a pioneer historian and the father of English life-writing, whose "Brief Lives" remains a lasting portrait of a generation of eminent thinkers and nobles. But Aubrey s intellectual interests were much broader. He was one of the first Fellows of the Royal Society, and he was acquainted with leading scientists of the generation of Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton. Aubrey championed Hooke s geological theories, radical for the time, that...
John Aubrey (1626 97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. He is remember...
