A dispute about how this institution supported "engine science" appears in a book by Steve Shapin and Simon Schaffer which argues how the pamphlet Dialogus Physicus was written to attack many of this institution's members, such as John Wallis.
According to Anna Battigelli's book about "Exiles of the Mind," this institution is satirized in a work of fiction in which "parrot-men" and "bear-men" serve an Empress who promote their learned ideas. A dispute about how this institution supported "engine science" appears in a book by Steve Shapin and Simon Schaffer which argues how the pamphlet Dialogus Physicus was written to attack many of this institution's members, such as John Wallis. A set of "Observations" authored by Margaret Cavendish and the accompanying satire The Blazing World attacked this institution, which grew from an "Invisible" group of "natural philosophers" according to Robert Boyle. John Aubrey's Brief Lives claims that Thomas Hobbes never joined it since many of its members spited him. This institution, which grew out of Gresham's College, devoted itself to the "new science" described by Francis Bacon. For 10 points, name this institution, which was once headed by Isaac Newton.
According to Anna Battigelli's book about "Exiles of the Mind," this institution is satirized in a work of fiction in which "parrot-men" and "bear-men" serve an Empress who promote their learned ideas.
Royal Society [prompt on Gresham's College]