The Society of Arts and Joseph Banks: a first step in London learned society

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.A Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The Creation ◽  
At Home

Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was President of the Royal Society from 1778 to 1820, the longest anyone has served in that capacity, and during his prolonged tenure Banks was elected to numerous other societies at home and abroad. In the present paper Banks's membership of the Society of Arts and Manufactures is discussed, this being the first society to which he was ever elected in 1761. Of particular interest are the previously unexplained reasons for his withdrawal from the society in 1764, and his eventual re-election in 1791, this being the only example of Banks leaving and then rejoining a society. These events are investigated here. The creation, purpose and early development of the Society of Arts are also considered, as is its membership at a time when subscriptions were falling in the 1760s. Links with the Royal Society are described before, during and after this period of decline, and Joseph Banks's own contribution to the work of the Society of Arts is outlined.

Howard Florey - penicillin and after

1990 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-137 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Great Scientist ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National University ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Oxford University Press

Trevor I. Williams, Howard Florey - penicillin and after . Oxford University Press, 1984. Pp. xiii + 404. £22.50. ISBN 0-19-858173-4. Soon after Florey’s death in 1978 there appeared an admirable biography by Gwyn Macfarlane ( Howard Florey - the making of a great scientist , Oxford, 1979). It gives a full account of Florey’s early life in Australia and England including the discovery and exploitation of penicillin, with shorter accounts of his later activities in relation to the creation of the Australian National University, his period as President of the Royal Society and his last post as Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford.

Pedagogical Proposals for the Sensory and Motor Stimulation of Children From 0 to 2 Years Old

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-227
Author(s):  
María Alcaraz García ◽  
Clara María Sáez Sánchez ◽  
María Belén Sáez Sánchez ◽  
José Jaime Pérez Segura
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Early Education ◽  
Sensory Stimulation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Stimulation Of

This proposal encompasses in a practical and viable way a collection of activities to contribute to the early development of children's perceptive capacities through sensory stimulation and psychomotor education. These activities have been adjusted to the reality of the school and the evolution and personal features of children from 0 to 2 years old. Moreover, recommendations and strategies to grant an inclusive early education derived from the experience of putting them into practice have been included. The goal, in every case, will be the creation of fun learning situations where the infants feel free to do, touch, feel, express, make mistakes, and try things over and over again.

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1775 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Opinion ◽  
The Common ◽  
Made In ◽  
At Home

The Committee appointed by the Royal Society to direct the publication of the Philosophical Transactions, take this Opportunity to acquaint the Public, that it fully appears, as well from the council-books and journals of the Society, as from repeated declarations, which have been made in several former Transactions, that the printing of them was always, from time to time, the single act of the respective Secretaries, till the Forty-Seventh Volume. And this information was thought the more necessary, not only as it had been the common opinion, that they were published by the authority, and under the direction, of the Society itself; but also, because several authors, both at home and abroad, have in their writings called them the Transactions Royal Society. Whereas in truth the Society, as a body, never did interest themselves any. further in their publication, than by occasionally recommending the revival of them to some of their Secretaries, when, from the particular circumstances of their affairs, the Transactions had happened for any length of time to be intermitted.

Louis Harold Gray, 1905-1965

1966 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 195-217 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Natural Experiments ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
At Home

Louis Harold (Hal) Gray was not a product of his times; that is to say he was no opportunist who cleverly adapted his talents to the current circumstances. Rather he was a maker of scientific history and his genius would have been as apparent in any other age. Particularly would he have been at home in London three centuries earlier. It has been recorded (1) * that the beginnings of the Royal Society stemmed from the urge in ´a small group of learned men who were interested in the Experimental, or New Philosophy as it was then called . . . to meet occasionally in London for talk and discussions at the lodgings of one of their number’. The urge to meet with his fellow men for their mutual benefit by discussion of matters of science was characteristic also of Hal Gray. The New Philosophy which some would now equate with the scientific method owed much in England to Francis Bacon (one time of Trinity College, Cambridge) and would have delighted a seventeenth-century Gray. It was the natural revolution of the Renaissance period against medieval dogma and the confinement of formalistic scholasticism. Further the New Philosophy was not subject-limited, and its exponents considered and discussed Physick, Anatomy, Geometry, Astronomy, Navigation, Statistics, Magnetics, Chymicks and Natural Experiments (2).

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1766 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Opinion ◽  
The Common ◽  
Made In ◽  
At Home

The Committee appointed by the Royal Society to direct the publication of the Philosophical Transactions, take this Opportunity to acquaint the Public, that it fully appears, as well from the council-books and journals of the Society, as from repeated declarations, which have been made in several former Transactions, that the printing of them was always, from time to time, the single act of the respective Secretaries, till the Forty-Seventh Volume. And this information was thought the more necessary, not only as it had been the common opinion, that they were published by the authority, and under the direction, of the Society itself; but also, because several authors, both at home and abroad, have in their writings called them the Transactions Royal Society. Whereas in truth the Society, as a body, never did interest themselves any. further in their publication, than by occasionally recommending the revival of them to some of their Secretaries, when, from the particular circumstances of their affairs, the Transactions had happened for any length of time to be intermitted.

Some recent developments at the National Physical Laboratory

1962 ◽  
Vol 265 (1321) ◽  
pp. 141-160
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
National Physical Laboratory ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Scientific Policy ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Creation

When the National Physical Laboratory was founded in 1900, the Royal Society was ‘invited to control the proposed institution and to nominate a governing body’. Since the Royal Society had agitated strongly for the creation of such a laboratory, this invitation was accepted, and although the National Physical Laboratory was incorporated into the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research when that body was created in 1917, the connexion between the Royal Society and the National Physical Laboratory is still very close on all matters of scientific policy.

scholarly journals Natural Knowledge, Inc.: the Royal Society as a metropolitan corporation

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
NOAH MOXHAM
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Natural Knowledge ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article attempts to think through the logic and distinctiveness of the early Royal Society's position as a metropolitan knowledge community and chartered corporation, and the links between these aspects of its being. Among the knowledge communities of Restoration London it is one of the best known and most studied, but also one of the least typical and in many respects one of the least coherent. It was also quite unlike the chartered corporations of the City of London, exercising almost none of their ordinary functions and being granted very limited power and few responsibilities. I explore the society's imaginative and material engagements with longer-established corporate bodies, institutions and knowledge communities, and show how those encounters repeatedly reshaped the early society's internal organization, outward conduct and self-understanding. Building on fundamental work by Michael Hunter, Adrian Johns, Lisa Jardine and Jim Bennett, and new archival evidence, I examine the importance of the city to the society's foundational rhetoric and the shifting orientation of its search for patronage, the development of its charter, and how it learned to interpret the limits and possibilities of its privileges through its encounters with other chartered bodies, emphasizing the contingent nature of its early development.

Some Spanish contributions to the early activities of the Royal Society of London

1988 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Grand Tour ◽  
Foreign Travel ◽  
The World ◽  
Royal Society Of London ◽  
At Home

IN March 1664, soon after its foundation, the Royal Society of London began to publish its Philosophical Transactions , the full title of which indicates the scope of the Society’s interests: Philosophical Transactions: giving some Accompt of the present undertakings, studies and labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World. Well-educated Englishmen felt quite at home with their fellows abroad. It had long been the custom for the upper classes to send their sons on the ‘grand tour’ to complete their education, and some young men of modest birth also contrived to enjoy the advantages of foreign travel. The links thus formed between England and the continent of Europe ensured that the Royal Society received a plentiful flow of correspondence from abroad. Extracts from these letters, reviews of technical and scientific books, suggestions made by members, and accounts of their inventions and experiments, rendered the Transactions an important vehicle for the exchange and dissemination of knowledge throughout the world.

scholarly journals The creation and characterisation of a National Compound Collection: the Royal Society of Chemistry pilot

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 3869-3878 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Andrews ◽  
Laura M. Broad ◽  
Paul J. Edwards ◽  
David N. A. Fox ◽  
Timothy Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Compound Collection ◽  
The Creation

We report the extraction of compound data from historical literature, making it chemically searchable. Evaluation by drug discovery groups reveals the utility of this approach.

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