The Revolutionary Tradition in Canadian and American Society: Report on a Joint Symposium of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1976 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 13
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Joint Symposium ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Society Report ◽  
American Society

III. An account of the observations on the great nebula in Orion, made at Birr Castle, with the 3-feet and 6-feet telescopes, between 1848 and 1867. With a drawing of the nebula

1868 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Great Care ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope

Many drawings of the Great Nebula in Orion have already been published by different astronomers; still as the present drawing was made with the advantage of instrumental power far exceeding that at the disposal of previous observers, and as great care has been taken to make it accurate, in fact every available hour during the winter months of seven seasons having been employed upon it, perhaps it may be of some interest to the Royal Society. Several drawings of this wonderful object were published previous to the year 1825, but they were made with instruments of little power; however, in 1825, Sir J. Herschel published a drawing made with his celebrated 18-inch reflector (Memoirs of the Astronomical Society, 1826). Sir J. Herschel’s second drawing with the same instrument, but under more favourable circumstances, together with a description and a catalogue of stars, was published in 1847 (Cape of Good Hope Observations). That was succeeded in 1848 by Mr. Bond’s drawing, also with a description and catalogue of stars (Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1848).

scholarly journals The Rumford medallists of the American Academy of Arts And Sciences

1950 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The One

Fellows of the Royal Society are familiar with the Rumford Fund, which was founded as a result of a gift of £1000, made by Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, F. R. S., on 12 July 1796, ‘in order that the interest of it should be given once every second year as a premium to the author of the most important discovery or useful improvement which shall be made or published by printing, or in any way made known to the public in any part of Europe during the preceding two years, on heat or on light, the preference always being given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the President and Council, tend most to promote the good of mankind. The premium is to take the form of two medals, the one of gold and the other of silver.' The first Rumford Medal was very appropriately awarded in 1802 to Count Rumford himself.

Hooke recommemorated

1996 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
History Of

Richard Nichols, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, The Leonardo of London, 1635-1703 . Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp. 185, £15.00. ISBN 0- 86332-930-6. Richard Nichols is a science master turned historian of science who celebrates in this book Robert Hooke’s contributions to the arts and sciences. The appreciation brings together comments from Hooke’s Diaries , and other works, on each of his main enterprises, and on his personal interaction with each of his principal friends and foes. Further references to Hooke and his activities are drawn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, Aubrey’s Brief Lives , and the Diaries of Evelyn and of Pepys. The first section of the book, ‘Hooke the Man’, covers his early years of education at home in Freshwater, at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he soon joined the group of experimental philosophers who set him up as Curator of the Royal Society and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Bishopsgate. Hooke’s domestic life at Gresham College is described - his intimate relationships with a series of housekeepers, including his niece, Grace Hooke, and his social life at the College and in the London coffee houses.

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