scholarly journals James Keir of the Lunar Society

1967 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-154 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Phlogiston Theory ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Modern Chemistry ◽  
Lunar Society Of Birmingham

THE long career of James Keir (born in Edinburgh on 20 September 1735, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 December 1785, died at West Bromwich on 11 October 1820) effectively covered the period of the scientific revolution out of which modern chemistry evolved. Keir himself played a significant part in that revolution, as writer, experimenter, and industrialist—and, by no means least, as a frequent ‘chairman’ at meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which he helped to hold together by his tact and force of character. Although there are frequent references to Keir in books and articles dealing with the period (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), he remains relatively unknown, partly because he was overshadowed by men like Priestley and Watt, partly because he adhered too long to the phlogiston theory, and perhaps also because of his own modesty. A short account of his life, and an appreciation of his contributions to science and technology, may therefore not be out of place, particularly in view of the marked revival of interest in the Lunar Society in recent years.

scholarly journals XV. A short account of Mr. Kersseboom's essay [intituled, verhandeling tot een proeve om te weeten de probable menigte des volks in de proventie van Hollandt en Westfrieslandt. Hage 1738. In 4 to . door W. Kersseboom] upon the number of people in Holland and West-Friezland, as also in Harlem, Gouda and the Hague; drawn from the bills of births, burials, or marriages, in those places

1738 ◽  
Vol 40 (450) ◽  
pp. 401-406
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The City

Every body knows to what useful Purposes the Bills of Births and Burials at the City of Breslau , the Capital of Silesia , have been applied, by a very learned and sagacious Member of the Royal Society; as also what curious Observations have been made, both Moral, Physical and Political, by Sir William Petty , upon the same Argument, several Years before, and Dr. Arbuthnot and others since.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

III. On the structure of a species of millepora occurring at Tahiti, Society Islands

1877 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Yellow Colour ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
Bright Yellow ◽  
The Subject

In a paper treating mainly on the structure of the Heliopora cœrulea , which was communicated to the Royal Society in the autumn of last year (1875), I gave a short account of the results at which I had arrived from the examination of two species of Millepora obtained at Bermuda and at the Philippines, and expressed my intention of further prosecuting the subject at the Sandwich Islands and Tahiti, should material be forthcoming. At Honolulu no Millepora was met with; and this form apparently does not occur at the Sandwich Islands, the water being too cold for it. At Tahiti a Millepora is very abundant on the reefs in from one to two feet of water, and is very conspicuous because of its bright yellow colour.

A discussion on building technology in the 1980s - Introductory remarks

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1229) ◽  
pp. 495-496
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Development Effort ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Industrial Activities ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
British Industry ◽  
Look Ahead

The Royal Society, which for over three centuries has been the prime meeting-place for all the leading pathfinders in British science and technology, is concerned more than ever today with the great enterprise of viewing technological and scientific development and research in the total context of the needs emerging in industry as a whole. To this end, the Society’s Committee on Industrial Activities, of which I am Chairman, but most of whose 22 members are Fellows of the Royal Society working within British industry, has instituted a series of major discussion meetings under the general heading ‘Technology in the 1980s’. One clear object of these meetings is to focus attention upon those developments and researches now in progress that relate to the needs of a particular industry and that seem so important that they are likely to transform some aspect of the technology of that industry by (say) the 1980s. An even more important aim is to look ahead, in the light of all the information we have about not only technological but also general developments in that industry, and to try to forecast its expected character and problems in the 1980 s in an integrated fashion, that can give real help in planning today’s research and development effort.

scholarly journals XII.—On the Climate of Edinburgh for Fifty-six years, from 1795 to 1850, deduced principally from Mr Adie's Observations; with an Account of other and Earlier Registers

1861 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Short Account ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Meteorological Instruments

1. The late Mr Alexander Adie, optician, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, was so generally known to be a zealous and careful observer of meteorological instruments, that an attempt to combine the results deducible from his labours carried on (though with one long break) over more than forty years, cannot be otherwise than interesting.2. The plan of superintending the careful reduction of the thermometrical part of Mr Adie's registers occurred to me a long time ago, but circumstances prevented the execution of it until two or three years since, when, through the kindness of Mr Adie and his family, the whole of the manuscript observations, commencing with 1795, were put into my hands, and the Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh provided sufficient funds for the employment of computers for reducing them.3. The work has proceeded with frequent interruptions, but is at length complete. Before I proceed to detail the particulars of the reductions and their results, I will give a short account of the earlier observations on the climate of Edinburgh which I have been able to trace, some of which perhaps have hitherto escaped notice.

‘Secrets of high moment’

1969 ◽  
Vol 312 (1510) ◽  
pp. 317-324
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
High Moment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Benjamin Franklin

It is an honour to be here today in the company of such distinguished colleagues. It is also a privilege to be able to pay my respects to the Royal Society, which was organized three centuries ago to shift the whole course of science away from medieval disputation into experimental research. If this bold intellectual venture had either not been launched or had failed, we would not be meeting today—either here or anywhere else. I also salute my countryman, Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait I saw here this morning, not so much for his science as for his independence. If by awarding him its Copley Medal in 1753 for his theories about electricity, the Royal Society had hoped to lure him into the scientific revolution and away from the political one, it failed. Had it succeeded, the rest of you might be meeting here today, but I probably would not.

Edward Lhuyd and the Origins of Early Medieval Celtic Archaeology

2007 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 165-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Stone Sculpture

The Welshman Edward Lhuyd (?1659/60–1709), Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, was a naturalist, philologist and antiquarian. He wrote the Welsh additions to Camden's Britannia (1695) and undertook extensive research for an Archaeologia Britannica. He was part of the scientific revolution centred on the Royal Society and was influenced by the flowering of Anglo-Saxon studies in late seventeenth-century Oxford. Although many of his papers were destroyed, sufficient evidence survives to assess his methodology for recording early medieval antiquities – particularly inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales and other Celtic areas – as well as his analysis of them. His legacy is of considerable importance and he may be regarded as the founding father of early medieval Celtic archaeology.

Approximating Lyapunov Exponents of Discrete Dynamical Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1612-1615
Author(s):  
Wadia Faid Hassan Al-Shameri
Keyword(s):  
Dynamical System ◽  
Dynamical Systems ◽  
Lyapunov Exponents ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Discrete Dynamical System ◽  
Discrete Dynamical Systems ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Matlab Code

Lyapunov exponents play a significant part in revealing and quantifying chaos, which occurs in many areas of science and technology. The purpose of this study was to approximate the Lyapunov exponents for discrete dynamical systems and to present it as a quantifier for inferring and detecting the existence of chaos in those discrete dynamical systems. Finally, the approximation of the Lyapunov exponents for the discrete dynamical system was implemented using the Matlab code listed in the Appendix.

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