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SOME among us, long interested in the life and times of distinguished scientific and literary personalities of the mid-seventeenth century, would fain retain the opinion that Henry Oldenburg was eminently fitted to occupy the special post that was assigned him ; moreover, that his very detachment from the realms of experimental adventure and inventiveness actually facilitated and did not invalidate remarkable services, securing freedom, with a responsibility of high order.
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JAMES, T. Robert Hooke and his Contemporaries. Nature 136, 603 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136603a0
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