Marcus Nevitt

The flowering of enlightenment under Oliver Cromwell

Far from being a puritanical wasteland, revolutionary Britain saw the foundation of the Oxford Circle, a group of philosophers and scientists who bridged the political divide of the times

Robert Boyle, philosopher, chemist, theologian and member of the Experimental Philosophy Club. [Alamy]
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