Read through books on SCIENCE! and see if any experiments come to mind purely for the purpose of getting a better understanding of SCIENCE!
I.e. practise, raise our SCIENCE! skills.
You are a Gentlemanne of Natural Philosophie, not a Lv. 13 Human Arcane Scientist. You do not practice for the sake of practice. Think up some real science. It's not like you've reached the limits of your capabilities.
Research warding spells to protect our house or something? If this is too much like magic shields and invoke our RAEG then research how magic shields work before researching any specefic magic shields and/or warding spells.
Almost a quarter of your known spells are personal property protection. However, each one covers only part of the wide range of misfortunes that can befall a house. What specifically are you looking for?
Look up spells for fusing creatures.
Alak! Your have spells for turning men into frogs, frogs into snakes, snakes into mice, and mice into pumpkins, but no spell you know stops halfway.
In other words, lets develop a steam-powered printing press. With it, we can produce a large library, claiming to have purchased said books and thereby attracting like-minded bookworms to our cause. Eventually, as we gain their trust, we could introduce them to our brilliant invention and exchange the printing of books in exchange for a copy of said book.
A printing press? Well, the theory is easy to understand, and you could certainly design and build one, but it would take a long time, and its operation would take a lot of work. To produce a collection of books rivalling or even equalling a small library would take years alone. If you want a book printed, there are small printing presses all over the place which will do it for you, and if you write it in some foreign language, they will not know what it is about.