The health of Pepys, whose influence and…
May 1669 CE
The health of Pepys, whose influence and reforms at the Admiralty are been important factors in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy, as suffered from the long hours he worked.
Now thirty-six, he reluctantly concludes that, for the sake of his eyes, he should completely stop writing and, from now on, only dictate to his clerks which means he can no longer keep the detailed private diary he has kept during 1660.
First published in the nineteenth century, Pepys diary is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.
It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.
Anglo-Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle, often referred to as the father of modern chemistry, around 1670, further studies Paracelsus's flammable gas, called phlogiston, or the flammable principle (now known to be hydrogen).
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