Raymond Phineas Stearns

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Joseph Kellogg's Observations on Senex's Map of North America (1710)

The Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1936)

Raymond Phineas Stearns

Joseph Kellogg's Observations on Senex's Map of North America (1710) Get access Raymond Phineas Stearns Raymond Phineas Stearns Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 23, Issue 3, December 1936, Pages 345–354, https://doi.org/10.2307/1886369 Published: 01 December 1936

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Colonial Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 1661-1788

The William and Mary Quarterly (1946)

Raymond Phineas Stearns

I. Statutes relating to the admission of Fellows of the Royal Society. That inhabitants of the British colonies in America were sometimes elected Fellows of the Royal Society of London has been known since the foundation of the Society, but no one has attempted to prepare from the Society’s original records a complete list of colonial Fellows.2 Such a list, as it may indicate the names of those colonial scientists, both amateur and professional, who, by constant intercourse with Fellows of the Royal Society in England and with the Society itself as a corporate body, contributed most to the introduction and development of * 34 experimental philosophy ’ in the New World, it is the purpose of this paper to supply. From the aims and practices both of its immediate predecessors, the groups that met in Oxford and in London, and of a number of its earliest Fellows, the Royal Society inherited as a prime motive of its existence the accurate collection, classification, and interpretation of scientific data from all parts of the world. Such an undertaking required collaborators in remote places, and in the first charter of the Society (15 July 1662),4 for the improvement of the experiments, arts, and sciences of the aforesaid Royal Society/ Charles II granted to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Society, and to their successors, the privilege `. . . to enjoy mutual intelligence and knowledge with all and all manner of strangers and foreigners, whether private or collegiate, corporate or politic, without any molestation, interruption, or disturbance whatsoever: Provided nevertheless, that this our indulgence, so granted as it is aforesaid, be not extended to further use than the particular benefit and interest of the aforesaid Royal Society in matters or things philosophical, mathematical, or mechanical.’ 3

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The Irrepressible Democrat: Roger Williams.

American Literature (1942)

Raymond Phineas Stearns Samuel Hugh Brockunier Ralph H. Gabriel

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The New England Way in Holland

The New England Quarterly (1933)

Raymond Phineas Stearns

TUDENTS of English history are well aware that the Puritans experienced a set-back in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign and that they were profoundly disappointed with the early treatment accorded to them by James I. The king ignored their petitions and cast in his lot with the prelates of the church of England. When the severe Whitgift died, James elevated Bancroft to the see of Canterbury, and Puritan ministers were indeed harried out of the land. Many of these men found refuge in Holland, where toleration existed to a degree sufficient for them to remain, and, in many cases, to erect churches of their own. Some of these exiles, who represented the exultant exuberance of the early Elizabethan settlement, were extreme and schismatical men; others merely abhorred the pagan origins of many ceremonies and institutions in the church of England. Of the latter, especially, several found employment in Holland either as chaplains to English regiments stationed in the Low Countries, or with the English merchant-adventurers. In many Dutch towns the merchant-adventurers established churches with the permission and financial support of the states of Holland.l Among the expelled

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Fellows of The Royal Society in North Africa and the Levant, 1662-1800

Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (1954)

Raymond Phineas Stearns

A previous article has emphasized the importance of the considerable number of Fellows of the Royal Society of London who, between the founding of the Society and the war with Napoleon I, were inhabitants of— or were closely identified with—the British Colonies in the West Indies and the mainland of North America (1)*. What follows below is, in a sense, a continuation of the previous discussion in an effort to identify the principal media of scientific intercourse between the Society and the British trading areas in the Mediterranean regions, exclusive of the Christian world in southern and western Europe. The objects of this intercourse were, in the main, no different from those which impelled the Society from its founding to engage in scientific correspondence with every corner of the world. However, the role of the trading companies appears to have been less significant in the Levant and in North Africa than that of companies trading in the New World (such as the Hudson’s Bay Company and the South Sea Company) or of the great East India Company in the Far East. There is, for instance, no evidence of active co-operation between the Levant Company and the Royal Society. It is less surprising, perhaps, to find that not a single Arab, Turk, or Greek was elected to the Royal Society before 1800—although one Italian-born resident of Turkey was elected to the Fellowship. With this exception, as we shall see, all of the North African and Levantine Fellows of the Royal Society before 1800 were native Englishmen, Scots, or Irishmen who, for one reason or another, devoted a portion of their lives to labour in the ancient Mediterranean lands and, because of this fact (together with their scientific interests) became firsthand observers, collectors, and informants of the Society from those regions.

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Mark Catesby, the Colonial Audubon

Chesapeake Science (1963)

Carolyn Kolb George F. Frick Raymond Phineas Stearns

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Men of Substance: A Study of the Thought of Two English Revolutionaries, Henry Parker and Henry Robinson. W. K. Jordan

The Journal of Religion (1943)