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After writing the first article on the Royal Society, it seemed in
order to do the institution complete justice another follow on was
needed.
As a brief recap to the first article, the Royal Society was formed
one wet November day in 1660 at Gresham College, where 12
people thought it might be a good idea to form a society which
specialised in Science and its development of knowledge. Christopher Wren (then 28) was giving a talk on