IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 1660 - 1760

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN COOK
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Knowledge

scholarly journals Address BY Dr. J. H. Jeans, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and Secretary of the Royal Society.

1925 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 151-152
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Lord Chancellor

My Lord Chancellor, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Campbell, Ladies and Gentlemen: It would be an impertinence on my part to try to add anything to the Cambridge welcome which the Chancellor has offered you, but it is my privilege to be allowed to offer you a few words of welcome from a somewhat different angle. As the Chancellor has said, it is my good fortune to be officially connected with the two learned societies to whom, I suppose, your visit to this country means most: the Royal Society, which takes all natural knowledge for its province, and which is especially interested in international co-operation in the pursuit of such knowledge, and the Royal Astronomical Society, which takes astronomical knowledge for its special care. I am sure that both these bodies would wish that I should seize this opportunity to offer a most cordial welcome to our astronomical visitors from other countries; a welcome not only to Cambridge, but to this country in general. We feel it right that your visit should begin at Cambridge, but we are sure it is not right that it should end there; we hope you will remember that, after Cambridge, London also exists.

scholarly journals La Revista Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología como valor para la Federación Colombiana de Obstetricia y Ginecología, FECOLSOG

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Hernando Gaitán-Duarte ◽  
Jorge Andrés Rubio-Romero ◽  
Carlos Fernando Grillo-Ardila
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
De Medicina ◽  
Edinburgh Medical ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Las sociedades científicas tienen como uno de sus más nobles objetivos la promoción de la ciencia en los diferentes campos del conocimiento. La primera sociedad científica fue la Royal Society of London, fundada en 1660 en el Reino Unido, también conocida como la Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. La sociedad fue creada como “un colegio para la promoción del aprendizaje físico-matemático experimental” que publicó, en el año de 1666, la primera revista científica, Philosophycal Transactions (1, 2) y fue la publicación científica más importante hasta el siglo XIX, cuando aparecieron las revistas científicas especializadas. En Philosophycal Transactions se publicaron inicialmente noticias, cartas y descripciones de informes experimentales sin un formato o estilo estandarizado (3). La primera entidad en publicar una revista médica fue el Edinburgh Medical School, que divulgó el Medical Essays and Observations en 1731, que se transformó dos años más tarde en el Edinburgh Medical Journal y contó con revisión por pares desde el año de 1733 (4). La primera revista médica en Estados Unidos fue la Medical Repository, que apareció en 1797 (5). En el Reino Unido aparecen The Lancet en 1823, para publicar el trabajo desarrollado en las escuelas médicas de Londres y el reporte de casos, y el British Medical Journal en 1853, como resultado de la creación de la British Medical Association (4). En el año 1887, Philosophycal Transactions se dividió en dos nuevas revistas: una dedicada a la publicación de temas de matemáticas y física, y la segunda a temas de biología. A partir de 1989 realizó una importante innovación: la revisión anónima de los contenidos por pares. Los hechos enunciados recuerdan que las revistas científicas médicas se han originado en las sociedades científicas y en las escuelas de medicina con el objetivo de presentar tanto la metodología como los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas, con la característica desde sus inicios de realizar un proceso anónimo y riguroso de revisión por pares.

scholarly journals The Croonian Lecture - The biology of epidemics

1942 ◽  
Vol 130 (861) ◽  
pp. 337-359 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Local Motion ◽  
Natural Knowledge

Some, at least, among those who have shared with me the honour of being invited to deliver the Croonian Lecture must have shared also an uneasy feeling that they were under an obligation to refer, directly or indirectly, to some aspect of muscular motion, in accordance both with precedent and with the supposed intentions of the Founder. Uncertain of the facts, I consulted the Society’s records, and found I need have no qualms. The Lecture was founded, not by Dr Croone, but by his widow, who, after his decease, married Sir Edwin Sadleir. It was founded by her for the Advancement of Natural Knowledge on Local Motion, or (conditionally) on such other subject as, in the opinion of the President for the time being, should be most useful for promoting the objects for which the Royal Society was instituted. A Report on the Croonian Lecture, issued by the Society in 1834, states the position clearly and concisely. The relevant passage reads:

scholarly journals Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
NOAH MOXHAM
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article attempts to think through the logic and distinctiveness of the early Royal Society's position as a metropolitan knowledge community and chartered corporation, and the links between these aspects of its being. Among the knowledge communities of Restoration London it is one of the best known and most studied, but also one of the least typical and in many respects one of the least coherent. It was also quite unlike the chartered corporations of the City of London, exercising almost none of their ordinary functions and being granted very limited power and few responsibilities. I explore the society's imaginative and material engagements with longer-established corporate bodies, institutions and knowledge communities, and show how those encounters repeatedly reshaped the early society's internal organization, outward conduct and self-understanding. Building on fundamental work by Michael Hunter, Adrian Johns, Lisa Jardine and Jim Bennett, and new archival evidence, I examine the importance of the city to the society's foundational rhetoric and the shifting orientation of its search for patronage, the development of its charter, and how it learned to interpret the limits and possibilities of its privileges through its encounters with other chartered bodies, emphasizing the contingent nature of its early development.

scholarly journals To Martin Folkes, Esq; President of the Royal Society of London, for improving natural knowledge, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, &c.

1743 ◽  
Vol 42 (462) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Royal Society Of London

Sir, Though the Royal Society heard with the greatest concern the resolution taken by their late worthy President, to decline being any longer chosen into that office

scholarly journals Property, Patronage, and the Politics of Science: The Founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

1974 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Shapin
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
System A ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Organizational Demands

The institutionalization of natural knowledge in the form of a scientific society may be interpreted in several ways. If we wish to view science as something apart, unchanging in its intellectual nature, we may regard the scientific enterprise as presenting to the sustaining social system a number of absolute and necessary organizational demands: for example, scientific activity requires acceptance as an important social activity valued for its own sake, that is, it requires autonomy; it is separate from other forms of enquiry and requires distinct institutional modes; it is public knowledge and requires a public, universalistic forum; it is productive of constant change and requires of the sustaining social system a flexibility in adapting to change. Support for such an interpretation may be found in the rise of modern science in seventeenth-century England, France, and Italy and in the accompanying rise of specifically scientific societies. Thus, the founding of the Royal Society of London may be interpreted as the organizational embodiment of immanent demands arising from scientific activity—the cashing of a blank cheque payable to science written on society's current account.

XIV. On some elementary laws of electricity

1834 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 213-245 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Philosopher ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Electricity And Magnetism ◽  
The Future ◽  
Deep Interest

1. A more perfect apprehension of those subtile agencies, the effects of which are continually present in various operations of nature, seems of paramount importance to the future advancement of science. Thus the physical causes of heat, light, electricity and magnetism, have become subjects of deep interest to the natural philosopher; little apology, therefore, may perhaps be deemed requisite for my venturing to submit to the consideration of the Royal Society an account of some inquiries, the object of which is to improve our knowledge of one of these great natural powers. As it is only by a patient and repeated induction from well investigated facts that we can hope to attain a higher degree of perfection in natural knowledge, I have thought it not altogether undesirable to inquire further into the elementary laws of common electricity: indeed, upon considering the late fine discoveries of Dr. Faraday, this seems to a certain extent requisite. The researches of this distinguished philosopher have invested electrical phenomena generally with a new interest, and exposed novel and important features in the theory of electrical action. The investigations in this department of science, which I have now the honour of presenting to the Royal Society, will, I hope, be found to contain matter of sufficient interest to render them not unworthy of its acceptance.

scholarly journals Experiments on the gas voltaic battery, with a view of ascertaining the rationale of its action, and on its application to eudiometry

1843 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 463-463
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Physical Science ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Royal Society Of London

The President informed the Meeting that the Council had voted the following Address of Condolence to Her Majesty the Queen, on the occasion of the demise of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex:— “To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. “The humble Address of the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for improving Natural Knowledge. “Most Gracious Sovereign, “ We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for improving Natural Knowledge, beg leave to approach Your Majesty with the expression of our heartfelt condolence on the loss which Your Majesty has sustained by the lamented death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. In the expression of our sorrow we are sure that all Your Majesty’s subjects must unite with us, when they regard the public and private virtues of His Royal Highness. We are bound to feel additional grief as a Society over which His Royal Highness had presided, and where he had uniformly shown the greatest zeal for the cause of knowledge, and the most amiable condescension and kindness to every cultivator of Physical Science.

scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir Archibald Geikie, K. C. B., at the anniversary meeting on November 30, 1911

1912 ◽  
Vol 84 (574) ◽  
pp. 435-447
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Francis Galton

The first duty which devolves upon us at these Anniversaries is to take note of the losses by death which the Society has suffered during the year that has passed. The sadness which cannot but be felt in recounting these losses and realising by how much poorer they have made the Society is, perhaps, somewhat lessened on the present occasion by the fact that our ranks have suffered rather less diminution than usual. On the Home List we have lost thirteen Fellows, on the Foreign List only one. At the Anniversary last year, in presenting the Copley Medal, I had an opportunity of briefly referring to some of the leading features in the career of Sir Francis Galton, to whom the Medal had been awarded. Within a few weeks thereafter that distinguished man, full of years and honours, passed to his rest. In the brief interval of these weeks, I had the pleasure of visiting him at his temporary home in the country, and of hearing from his own lips how greatly he was gratified that the Royal Society, of whose Fellowship he was always so appreciative, should have bestowed on him its highest honour. It was, he said, the crowning distinction of his life. I did not think at the time that it would be the last mark of recognition that would come to him, for he looked as well as he had done for a long time; his keen interest in scientific progress was unabated, and his mind and memory clear as ever. In him we mourn an accomplished and generous man of science, who devoted his long life and energies to the advancement of natural knowledge. It is a pleasing remembrance to us that in conferring the Copley Medal upon him the Royal Society brightened the last days of one of the most loyal of its Fellows.

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