![]() ![]() This paper places Vincent in the context of the activities of the early Royal Society and offers an overview of this interest in sinology. Hitherto unnoticed, hidden away in an appendix to a court sermon, it nonetheless represented part of the interest in Chinese culture in the circles of the early Royal Society. ![]() However, his greatest contribution to the intellectual history of the Restoration is located in his 1685 translation of Confucius's ‘Great Learning’, which seems to be the first time that a Confucian book began to be printed in the English language. An amateur scientist operating in the shadow of the great fellows of the early Royal Society, Vincent's involvement ranged from investigating the work of Denis Papin to presenting a manuscript of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1722), an obscure and elusive fellow of the Royal Society (1683–7 readmitted 1694) who was also fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge and chaplain in ordinary to Charles II. This paper outlines the sinological activities of Nathanael Vincent (d. ![]()
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