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Gems from the archive

Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society

. By Michael Hunter. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK: 1989. Pp.382. £45, $86.Science in Sweden: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1739–1989. Edited by Tore Frängsmyr. Science History Publications, Box 493, Canton, Massachusetts 02554, USA: 1989. Pp.291. North America $45, elsewhere $49.50.

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Bynum, W. Gems from the archive. Nature 344, 27–28 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/344027a0

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