LALOUETTE, J. A., MARTIAL-CRAIG, M.-J., NG KEE KWONG, R. and RICAUD, C. Papiers Doyens. Une collection de la Société Royale des Arts et des Sciences de l'Ile Maurice. Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius: 2010. Pp 18, illustrated + CD-Rom. ISBN 9789994932597.

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-359
Author(s):  
Isabelle Charmantier
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Arts And Sciences

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.

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).

Colonial fellows of the Royal Society of London, 1661-1788

1951 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-246 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
New World ◽  
Experimental Philosophy ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Corporate Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
British Colonies ◽  
Royal Society Of London

I. Statutes relating to the admission of Fellows of the Royal Society. That inhabitants of the British colonies in America were sometimes elected Fellows of the Royal Society of London has been known since the foundation of the Society, but no one has attempted to prepare from the Society’s original records a complete list of colonial Fellows. 2 Such a list, as it may indicate the names of those colonial scientists, both amateur and professional, who, by constant intercourse with Fellows of the Royal Society in England and with the Society itself as a corporate body, contributed most to the introduction and development of * 34 experimental philosophy ’ in the New World, it is the purpose of this paper to supply. From the aims and practices both of its immediate predecessors, the groups that met in Oxford and in London, and of a number of its earliest Fellows, the Royal Society inherited as a prime motive of its existence the accurate collection, classification, and interpretation of scientific data from all parts of the world. Such an undertaking required collaborators in remote places, and in the first charter of the Society (15 July 1662),4 for the improvement of the experiments, arts, and sciences of the aforesaid Royal Society/ Charles II granted to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Society, and to their successors, the privilege `. . . to enjoy mutual intelligence and knowledge with all and all manner of strangers and foreigners, whether private or collegiate, corporate or politic, without any molestation, interruption, or disturbance whatsoever: Provided nevertheless, that this our indulgence, so granted as it is aforesaid, be not extended to further use than the particular benefit and interest of the aforesaid Royal Society in matters or things philosophical, mathematical, or mechanical.’ 3

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