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Letters concerning


LETTER XXIV.

ON THE

Royal Society

AND OTHER

ACADEMIES.

THE Engliſh had an Academy of Sciences many Years before us, but then it is not under ſuch prudent Regulations as ours, the only Reaſon of which very poſſibly is, becauſe it was founded before the Academy of Paris; for had it been founded after, it would very probably have adopted ſome

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