A major development of the Scientific Revolution was the foundation of scientific societies: Academia Secretorum Naturae (Accademia dei Segreti, the Academy of the Mysteries of Nature) can be considered the first scientific community; founded in Naples 1560 by Giambattista della Porta.
Bachelor of Science | National Science Foundation | history | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Museum of Natural History | Natural History Museum | political science | Master of Science | Science | History | sociology | Computer Science | History (U.S. TV channel) | Sociology | computer science | science | Political Science | natural history | Field Museum of Natural History | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | History of China | National Museum of Natural History | The History Channel | science fiction film | Natural history | Weizmann Institute of Science | Science fiction | Jewish history | Indian Institute of Science |
His fields of expertise are history of science, history of mathematics, the scientific revolution, sociology of science, intellectual history, 17-18th centuries, history of Chinese science, and the history of botany.