« It was therefore, some space after the civil wars at Oxford, in Dr Wilkins his Lodgings, in Wadham College, which was then the place of resort for vertuaous, and learned men, that the first meetings were made, which laid the foundations of all this that follow'd. »(en) Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society, Londres, J. Knapton, , 3e éd. (1re éd. 1667), 438 p. (lire en ligne), p. 53
