Anthony Turner is an Oxford trained historian and independent scholar with an interest in the social history of ideas during the Ancien Régime and on the history of scientific instruments, clocks, watches, and sundials. Consultant to Sotheby's, Bonhams, and Artcurial for scientific instruments, he also acts as expert for horology and science sales in Paris. A major research project of the past three decades has been the conception and development of a bio-bibliographical data base of French and Swiss scientific instrument makers.

• Preface List of illustrations 1: From Cosmos to Parish 2: Robert Plot 3: The Ashmolean Museum 4: The Oxford Philosophical Society 5: Biographical Notes on Members and Correspondents of the Philosophical Society 6: Aftermath Appendix 1: Concerning Robert Plot, deceased Appendix 2: Bibliography of Robert Plot Appendix 3: Bodleian Library Ms Ashmole 1813. Items omitted from this volume in the publication by R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, xii. Dr Plot and the correspondence of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, Oxford 1939 Appendix 4: Collections of the Oxford Philosophical Society Appendix 5: Five letters from Maurice Wheeler to Edward Lhywd Appendix 6: Portraits of Robert Plot Appendix 7: Programmes of the extra-curricular lectures on mathematics and natural philosophy by David Gregory and John Keill Appendix 8: Michael Burghers' engraving of the East entrance to the Ashmolean Musæum Bibliography Index

Anthony Turner is an Oxford trained historian and independent scholar with an interest in the social history of ideas during the Ancien Régime and on the history of scientific instruments, clocks, watches, and sundials. Consultant to Sotheby's, Bonhams, and Artcurial for scientific instruments, he also acts as expert for horology and science sales in Paris. A major research project of the past three decades has been the conception and development of a bio-bibliographical data base of French and Swiss scientific instrument makers.

• Preface List of illustrations 1: From Cosmos to Parish 2: Robert Plot 3: The Ashmolean Museum 4: The Oxford Philosophical Society 5: Biographical Notes on Members and Correspondents of the Philosophical Society 6: Aftermath Appendix 1: Concerning Robert Plot, deceased Appendix 2: Bibliography of Robert Plot Appendix 3: Bodleian Library Ms Ashmole 1813. Items omitted from this volume in the publication by R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, xii. Dr Plot and the correspondence of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, Oxford 1939 Appendix 4: Collections of the Oxford Philosophical Society Appendix 5: Five letters from Maurice Wheeler to Edward Lhywd Appendix 6: Portraits of Robert Plot Appendix 7: Programmes of the extra-curricular lectures on mathematics and natural philosophy by David Gregory and John Keill Appendix 8: Michael Burghers' engraving of the East entrance to the Ashmolean Musæum Bibliography Index

Anthony Turner is an Oxford trained historian and independent scholar with an interest in the social history of ideas during the Ancien Régime and on the history of scientific instruments, clocks, watches, and sundials. Consultant to Sotheby's, Bonhams, and Artcurial for scientific instruments, he also acts as expert for horology and science sales in Paris. A major research project of the past three decades has been the conception and development of a bio-bibliographical data base of French and Swiss scientific instrument makers.

• Preface List of illustrations 1: From Cosmos to Parish 2: Robert Plot 3: The Ashmolean Museum 4: The Oxford Philosophical Society 5: Biographical Notes on Members and Correspondents of the Philosophical Society 6: Aftermath Appendix 1: Concerning Robert Plot, deceased Appendix 2: Bibliography of Robert Plot Appendix 3: Bodleian Library Ms Ashmole 1813. Items omitted from this volume in the publication by R. T. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford, xii. Dr Plot and the correspondence of the Philosophical Society of Oxford, Oxford 1939 Appendix 4: Collections of the Oxford Philosophical Society Appendix 5: Five letters from Maurice Wheeler to Edward Lhywd Appendix 6: Portraits of Robert Plot Appendix 7: Programmes of the extra-curricular lectures on mathematics and natural philosophy by David Gregory and John Keill Appendix 8: Michael Burghers' engraving of the East entrance to the Ashmolean Musæum Bibliography Index