Conversazione to mark the quater-centenary of the birth of Galileo

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-119
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Original Works ◽  
History Of

A conversazione was held on Thursday, 9 July to mark the quatercentenary of the birth of Galileo. On this occasion some 350 Fellows and their Ladies, representatives of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the BritishItalian Society, the British Society for the History of Science and the British National Committee for the History of Science attended. Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S., arranged an exhibit of books by and closely concerning Galileo. This included many original works by Galileo, modern translations into English and selected books containing references to Galileo from Professor Andrade’s own collections and from the libraries of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society.

Napier Tercentenary Celebration, July 1914

1914 ◽  
Vol 7 (110) ◽  
pp. 299-300
Author(s):  
C.G. Knott
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Town Council ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town ◽  
Educational Importance

John Napier's Logarithmorum Canonis Mirifici Descriptio was published in 1614 ; and it is proposed to celebrate the tercentenary of this great event in the history of mathematics by a Congress, to be held in Edinburgh on Friday, 24th July, 1914, and following days.The Celebration is being held under the auspices of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on whose invitation a General Committee has been formed, representing the Royal Society of London, the Royal Astronomical Society, the Town Council of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Actuaries, the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh, the University College of Dundee, and many other bodies and institutions of educational importance.The President and Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh have now the honour of giving a general invitation to mathematicians and others interested in this coming Celebration.

scholarly journals Charles Babbage and the Ophthalmoscope

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-148 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Great Utility ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design And Construction

In the early part of 1940, at one of the dinners of the Royal Society A Dining Club, Sir John Parsons drew the attention of those present to a fact of some interest in the history of the Society, namely, that the Ophthalmoscope had been invented by Charles Babbage, F.R.S., in 1847, four years before H. von Helmholtz published his Eines Augen-Spiegels in 1851. Von Helmholtz however foresaw the great utility of his invention and devised a much more efficient instrument without knowing what Babbage had done and it is to him therefore that the credit belongs. Babbage is well known as a mathematician who interested himself in the design and construction of scientific instruments. He was at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was elected to the Fellowship of the Society in 1816. From 1828 to 1839 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, but is said to have delivered no lectures during his tenure of it. He took an active part in the foundation of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820, and was secretary of it until 1824.

Museums and the establishment of the history of science at Oxford and Cambridge

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. BENNETT
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
British Society ◽  
National Committee ◽  
National Society ◽  
Scientific Instruments ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
International Academy

In the Spring of 1944, an informal discussion took place in Cambridge between Mr. R. S. Whipple, Professor Allan Ferguson and Mr. F. H. C. Butler, concerning the formation of a national Society for the History of Science.This is the opening sentence of the inaugural issue of the Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science, the Society's first official publication. Butler himself was the author of this outline account of the subsequent approach to the Royal Society, the parallel moves to establish a National Committee of the International Academy of the History of Science, the formation of a provisional committee to prepare a draft constitution for a national society, and the proceedings of the first Annual General Meeting in May 1947. Whipple had been in Cambridge to discuss his offer to present his collection of old scientific instruments to the University and the possible foundation of a new museum, and Butler, as Secretary of the History of Science Committee in Cambridge, was the chief mover in both this development and an initiative coupled with it to establish a department of the history of science.

Fine Fellows, most of them

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
Main Text ◽  
High Street ◽  
History Of

Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700 , 2nd. edition. British Society for the History of Science,* 1994. Pp. ix+291, £10 (ppbk). ISBN 0 906450 098. Michael Hunter’s well-known survey of the early Royal Society and its Fellows began life as a paper in Notes and Records in 1976. It was subsequently expanded into a book in the series of Monographs published by the British Society for the History of Science, appearing in 1982 with a reprint in 1985. It has now matured into a second edition, with numerous updatings and some revisions. The main text consists of 54 pages, with chapters on the Fellows, the Society’s composition, its changing fortunes and its nature. This is a book where the tail wags the text, which is followed by 68 pages of Appendices, listing proposers, officers, activity at meetings, Fellows expelled (usually for non-payment of dues), and so on. Then there are nine Tables with information such as elections per year and the occupations of the Fellows. * Address: 31 High Street, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8LH

Essay Reviews: Hooke redivived

1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-261
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
Universal Gravitation ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
History Of

Robert Hooke: new studies . Edited by Michael Hunter & Simon Schaffer. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989. Pp. x + 310, £39.50. ISBN 0-85115-523-5 These New studies of the life and work of Robert Hooke (1635-1703) include nine of the papers given at a conference on 19-21 July 1987 at the Royal Society, London, organized by the British Society for the History of Science. The editors introduce the selection with a survey of Hooke’s biographers, beginning with Richard Waller, a Secretary of the Royal Society under Newton’s presidency, who prefaced his edition of Hooke’s Posthumous works (1705) with a warm, but diplomatically-cautious, ‘Life of Dr Robert Hooke’. Over the following two centuries, little attention was paid to Hooke save as a just (or unjust) claimant for credit as a contributor to Newton’s theory of universal gravitation.

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