What if the Royal Society had gone differently?

London's natural philosophers organise, publish a journal and make experiment the test of truth.

If it had gone differently: Science stays a private correspondence between gentlemen; results spread slowly and die with their authors.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the Royal Society. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1687Newton's Principia. Without it, There is no unified mathematical physics; the study of motion stays a bag of rules of thumb for another century.
2. 1720The Enlightenment. Without it, Absolutism keeps its intellectual cover; 'rights of man' never enters common speech.