The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)

This book is about a single image - John Evelyn's frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Providing a full analysis of the image in its Royal Society setting and the wider world of early-modern science, the book first considers the overall iconography of the image and its message concerning E