Frampton, Sir George James, (16 June 1860–21 May 1928), sculptor; an Honorary Life Member of the Oxford Union Society, 1904; Hon. Associate, Royal Institute of British Architects; Member Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Milan; past Master of the Art Workers’ Guild; President Royal Society British Sculptors, 1911–12

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Royal Institute ◽  
Honorary Life

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.

scholarly journals IX. Observations upon so much of Monsieur le Monnier the younger's memoir, lately presented to the Royal Society, as relates to the communicating the electric virtue to non-electrics; by Wm. Watson, F. R. S

1746 ◽  
Vol 44 (482) ◽  
pp. 388-395
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Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The World is much obliged to Mons. le Monnier for the many Discoverics he has made of the Power of Electricity; though the Reason of my troubling you with this Paper at this time, is my differing with that Gentleman in the Conclusions which he deduces from several of the Experiments contain’d in his Memoir lately presented to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris , his own Extract of which was lately communicated to the Royal Society .

scholarly journals XCV. An account of the comet seen at Paris, in June 1762: In an extract of a letter, dated at Paris, July 30, 1762, from Mons De la Lande, of the Royal Academy of Sci­ences at Paris, to Charles Morton, M. D. Secretary to the Royal Society

1761 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 581-581
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Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy

f ° ' Longitude of the ascending node - - - - 11 19 23 Longitude of the perihelion - - - - - 3 15 14 Inclination - - - - - - - - - - - - 84 45 Passage through the perihelion 28th of May, at 15 h 27', middle time.

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) ◽  
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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 V. Part of a letter from of Cambridge, to a Friend of the Royal Society, occasioned by what has lately been reported concerning the insect mentioned in page 218 of this transaction

1743 ◽  
Vol 42 (466) ◽  
pp. 227-234
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Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The last News from Paris gives something very surprising in the Account of Monsieur Reaumur's late Memoir, read in the Royal Academy of Sciences there, concerning an Animal called a Polypus , in which Life said to be preserved, after it has been cut into several Pieces, so that One Animal seems by Section to be immediately divided into Two or Three more complete Animals, each separately enjoying Life, and continuing to perform the proper Offices of its Species.

Swift's Laputians as a Caricature of the Cartesians

PMLA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 936-944 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Renaker
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Gulliver's Travels

The prevalent view that Book III of Gulliver’s Travels satirizes the Royal Society overlooks the fact that this book contains two satires, one on the Laputians and one on the Balnibarbians. The first of these satires gains point if we regard it as aimed at the Cartesians, interpreting Laputa as France, the land of the Cartesians, and Balnibarbi as England, the land of the Newtonians, characterizations made by Voltaire in his Lettres philosophiques. The Laputians’ fear of the extinction of the sun is fully justified by the cosmology of Descartes’s Principes; their musical mania exaggerates only slightly that of the Cartesian popularizer Marin Mersenne; their influence on the Balnibarbians, inspiring them to build the Academy of Lagado, represents the influence of Descartes on the Royal Academy, an influence that has been hitherto underestimated.

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