Boswell's Letters of Acceptance of the Office of Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy

1884 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Boswell
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy ◽  
Foreign Correspondence

La Royal Academy of Arts ou le compromis patricien

XVII-XVIII ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Thierry Labica
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy

The role of the Royal Academy of Engineering

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
S.W. Barlow
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy

scholarly journals Belt v Lawes and the Meaning of Authorship

2021 ◽  
pp. 174387212110268
Author(s):  
Amitpal C. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Vanity Fair ◽  
The Status ◽  
Historical Episode ◽  
The Law

The 1882 Belt v. Lawes libel trial centered around aesthetic questions, of precisely the kind that judges usually seek to avoid. The occasion for the dispute was an article in Vanity Fair by Charles Lawes, asserting that Richard Belt, a sculptor and member of the Royal Academy of Arts, relied on his assistants to do his work. At trial, Lawes proposed an artistic skills test of sorts, suggesting that Belt verify his abilities by executing a sculpture in the courtroom. This evidentiary drama, and the aesthetically freighted-arguments mustered by the parties at trial, make it a fruitful historical episode to study conceptions of authorship and the artistic process, the development of modern copyright doctrine, and the status of expert artistic testimony in the law.

scholarly journals IX. An account of trigonometrical operations in the years 1821, 1822 and 1823, for determining the difference of longitude between the Royal Observatories of Paris and Greenwich

1828 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 153-239 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Church ◽  
Royal Society Of London

In the year 1790, a series of trigonometrical operations was carried on by General Roy, in co-operation with Messrs. De Cassini, Mechain, and Legendre, for the purpose of connecting the meridians of Paris and Greenwich. In England, the work commenced with a base measured on Hounslow Heath, whence triangles were carried through Hanger Hill Tower and Severndroog Castle on Shooter’s Hill, to Fairlight Down, Folkstone Turnpike, and Dover Castle on the English coast; which last stations were connected with the church of Notre Dame at Calais, and with Blancnez and Montlambert upon the coast of France. An account of these operations will be found in the Philosophical Transactions for 1790. In the year 1821, the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Board of Longitude at Paris communicated to the Royal Society of London their desire, that the operations for connecting the meridians of Paris and Greenwich should be repeated jointly by both countries, and that commissioners should be nominated by the Royal Academy of Sciences and by the Royal Society of London for that purpose. This proposal having been readily acceded to, Messrs. Arago and Matthieu were chosen on the part of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Lieut.-Colonel (then Captain) Colby and myself were appointed by the Royal Society to co-operate with them.

Lord hartington in the royal academy

1889 ◽  
Vol s7-VII (180) ◽  
pp. 445-445
Author(s):  
H.
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy

Funding and Directing Research or Rewarding Scientific Achievements?

Nuncius ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Bret
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Académie Des Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Abstract This study examines the science and technology prize system of the Académie des Sciences through a first survey of the prizes granted over the period extending from the 1720s to the end of the 19th century. No reward policy was envisaged by the Royal Academy of Sciences in the Réglement (statute) promulgated by King Louis XIV in 1699. Prizes were proposed later, first by private donors and then by the state, and awarded in international contests setting out specific scientific or technical problems for savants, inventors and artists to solve. Using cash prizes, under the Ancien Régime the Academy effectively directed and funded research for specific purposes set by donors. By providing it with significant extra funding, the donor-sponsored prizes progressively gave the Academy relative autonomy from the political power of the state. In the 19th century, with the growing awareness of the importance of scientific research, the main question became whether to use the prizes to reward past achievements or to incentivize future research, and the scale and nature of the prizes changed.

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