1. See also Claude Tapia and Jacques Taieb, “Conférences et congrès internationaux de 1815 à 1913,” Relations internationales 5 (1976): 11–35.
2. Simon Schaffer, “Newton on the Beach: The Information Order of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica,” History of Science 47 (2009): 23–76.
3. A central theme of the history of the early Royal Society is how it might be made into an acceptable form of (corporate/regulated) public assembly; Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).
4. Quoted in James E. McClelland, Science Reorganized: Scientific Societies in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 5.
5. Michael Guenther, “Enlightened Pursuits: Science and Civic Culture in Anglo-America, 1730–1760” (PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 2008).