Charlottesville: University Of Virginia Press. Good+ in Good dust jacket; Text is clean. Cover shows light damp staining along side of front cover. Some staining to side text edge. Dust jacket is worn, with some heavy scuffing on back, heavy scuffing along edges, large chip missing from upper corner of front cover and several tape repaired closed tears. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. FROM THE FRONT FLAP: Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Academie des Sciences of Paris, were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. K. T. Hoppen shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be made of the scientific world at this time. The present book provides a detailed examination of one such institution - the Philosophical Society which flourished at Dublin between 1683 and 1708 and numbered among its members Sir William Petty and George Berkeley. ; 297 pages .