Property, patronage and the politics of science : the founding of the Royal society of Edinburgh / Steven Shapin.
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A p. 40-41: Appendix: Text of John Walker's Proposal for establishing at Edin, a society for the advancement of learning and usefull knowledge (EUL Ms. La. III. 352/1), dated: 2 March 1782
British journal for the history of science Vol. 7 (1974), p. 1-41