scholarly journals Address of the President Sir Robert Robinson, at the anniversary meeting, 1 December 1947

1947 ◽  
Vol 135 (878) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Living Cell ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
New Science ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Intimate Association ◽  
Scientific Life

The names that have just been recounted include those of many outstanding personalities in the scientific world and it would not be fitting to attempt even brief appreciations of their manifold services on this occasion. An exception must, however, be made when we mourn such giants as two of the deceased Fellows. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, O. M., was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1905; he delivered the Croonian Lecture in 1915, was Royal Medallist in 1918 and Copley Medallist in 1926. He was President of the Society from 1930 to 1935. Such are the bare facts, and though we are proud of his intimate association with the Royal Society, we do not now think of a Lecturer, a Medallist, or even of a President. Our memory dwells rather on the lovable qualities and magnanimous spirit of a devoted teacher and leader, and on the influence of his generous help to others as well as of his personal achievements during almost seventy years of scientific life. He was early imbued with the conviction that the chemistry of the living cell was his subject, that it was not only of transcendent importance, but also that it was ripe for development. He dedicated himself to the quest and embarked with enthusiasm on a pioneering voyage of discovery. The outcome of his courage and industry was the foundation of a new scientific discipline, if not of a new science. He was the father of modern schools of biochemistry and was the greatest biochemist of his generation.

"Plain and Vulgarly Express'd": Margaret Cavendish and the Discourse of the New Science

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Nate
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Margaret Cavendish ◽  
New Science ◽  
Plain Style ◽  
Thomas Sprat

Although Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), did not belong to the scientific community which after 1660 formed itself around the Royal Society, several of the philosophical issues discussed there are reflected in her writings. Lengthy reflections on language and style which run through her philosophical worksprovide evidence that the linguistic and rhetorical debates of the early Royal Society also left their mark. The isolation which Cavendish faced as a woman writer obliged her to discuss problems of terminology and style even more intensively, thereby adhering to the rhetorical principle of perspicuity which Thomas Sprat demanded in his proposal for a scientific plain style. The influence of the New Science on Cavendish's work becomes obvious when her later writings are compared to her earlier ones where traces of a courtly and more elitist understanding of style can still be found. In this paper the development of Cavendish's stylistic attitudes is traced in several of her works, including her Utopian narrative The Blazing World (1666).

scholarly journals Minute of Council on the Death of Principal Forbes

1869 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 476-476
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Andrews University ◽  
Scientific World

‘The Council of the Royal Society desire to record in their minutes the grief which they have felt in the death of James D. Forbes, Esq., lately Principal of St Andrews University, and their sense of the loss thus sustained—of one who was so great an ornament to science, and so long and so intimately connected with this Society. As a scientific inquirer, and as an academical instructor, the name of Dr Forbes will be held in reverence by all who knew him, or who benefited by his exertions; and it is a subject of deep regret that he should be cut off in the prime of life, and the scientific world deprived of his services at a time when his appointment as Principal of St Andrews University had placed him in a position where, if life and health had allowed, he might, by his further labours, have added to his own reputation and to the range of scientific discovery.

scholarly journals Cryptococcus neoformans – New Science for Discovering Melanin Modifiers

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
R. Soundharya ◽  
V. Aruna ◽  
G. V. Amruthavalli ◽  
R. Gayathri
Keyword(s):  
Cryptococcus Neoformans ◽  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
Living Cell ◽  
Cell Model ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
New Science ◽  
Biological Tool ◽  
Minimal Media ◽  
Presence And Absence

Aim: The present study was taken up to establish the effect of niacinamide on phenoloxidase lead melanogenesis and to prove the reliability of C. neoformans based screening methodology. Methods: The organism was grown in the Minimal media in presence and absence of L- DOPA and Niacinamide and checked for its pigment producing ability at different time intervals. Results: Niacinamide did not affect the pigmentation in Cryptococcus neoformans in the absence or presence of L-Dopa. Conclusion: Cryptococcus neoformans as a biological tool for studying the mechanism of action of various melanin promoters/ inhibitors. The present study highlights the importance and usefulness of Cryptococcus neoformans based screening invention as it is cost effective rapid and ‘living cell model’.

Leonhard Euler and the Theory of Ships

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (04) ◽  
pp. 274-290
Author(s):  
Horst Nowacki
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Leonhard Euler ◽  
The Rich ◽  
First Time

On April 15, 2007, the scientific world commemorated Leonhard Euler's 300th birthday. Euler's eminent work has become famous in many fields: mathematics, mechanics, optics, acoustics, astronomy, and geodesy, even in the theory of music. This article will recall his no less distinguished contributions to the founding of the modern theory of ships. These are not so widely known to the general professional public. In laying these foundations in ship theory, as in other fields, Euler was seeking "first principles, generality, order and above all clarity." This article will highlight those achievements for which we owe him our gratitude. There is no doubt that Leonhard Euler was one of the founders of the modern theory of ships. He raised many fundamental questions for the first time and through all phases of his professional lifetime devoted himself to subjects of ship theory. Thereby he gave a unique profile to this still nascent scientific discipline. Many of his approaches have been of lasting, incisive influence on the structure of this field. Some of his ideas have become so much a matter of routine today that we have forgotten their descent from Euler. This article will synoptically review Euler's contributions to the foundation of this discipline, will correlate them with the stages of Euler's own scientific development, embedded in the rich environment of scientific enlightenment in the 18th century, and will appreciate the value of his lasting aftereffects until today. The same example will serve to recognize the fertile field of tension always existing between Euler's fundamental orientation and his desire to make contributions to practical applications, which has remained characteristic of ship theory to the present day. Without claiming completeness in detail, this article aims at giving a coherent overview of Euler's approaches and objectives in this discipline. This synopsis will be presented primarily from the viewpoint of engineering science in its current stage of development.

Martin Folkes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anna Marie Roos
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
New Science ◽  
Definition Of

In 1750, Martin Folkes became the only individual who was President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London, and he contributed to efforts to unite both organizations. Although he failed, illness forcing him to resign both offices, this chapter outlines the book’s analysis of the ensuing disciplinary boundaries between the two organizations in the early Georgian era in the context of Folkes’s life and letters. While it is normally assumed that natural philosophy and antiquarianism are disciplines that were fast becoming disconnected in this period, this work will reconsider these assumptions. The Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries were nearly reunited for good reason. Both societies incorporated techniques and affinities from antiquarianism—natural history and landscape—and the ‘new science’—engineering principles, measurement, and empiricism. Using Folkes’s life and letters, this biography will examine the disciplinary boundaries between the humanities and sciences in early Georgian Britain and reassess the extent to which the separation of these ‘two cultures’ developed in this era. It will also consider to what extent Folkes continued the Newtonian programme in mathematics, optics, and astronomy on the Continent. In this manner, the work will refine its definition of Newtonianism and its scope in the early eighteenth century, elucidating and reclaiming the vibrant research programme that Folkes promoted in the period of English science least well understood between the age of Francis Bacon and the present.

scholarly journals Reidentifikasi Konsep dan Teori Dalam Memahami Fenomena Blind Spot Penelitian Pariwisata di Bali

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
I Putu Anom ◽  
I Gusti Agung Oka Mahagangga ◽  
I Made Bayu Ariwangssa ◽  
I Gusti Ayu Athina Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
New Science ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Concept Theory ◽  
Depth Interviews

Tourism science has been recognized as a scientific discipline in Indonesia since 2008. However, because of this interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary genealogy, it creates many scientific problems. The purpose of this paper is to understanding concept and theory of tourism science that very complex. The research was conducted in Bali, using qualitative methodology with library study methods, observation and in-depth interviews. The technique of determining informants used purposive sampling and qualitative data analysis techniques. The results of the study show that the concepts and theories of tourism are still largely referring to previously established sciences with many borrowing concepts, theories and other scientific methods. This fact make “the big machine of concept and theory” trigger as a blind spot. Very natural for a new science with interest wide ranging subject / object of research. Such an approach, the research findings that blind spot phenomenon in tourism research can be solved. In the industrial revolution 4.0 era, for existence tourism science more research must produce new concepts, theories and innovations. Keywords: Concept, theory, blind spot, science, tourism

David Ferrier’s Experimental Localization of Cerebral Functions and the Anti-Vivisection Debate

Nuncius ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmela Morabito
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
The Brain

While representing one of the most important developments in the knowledge of the brain, both for its theoretical advances and its medical consequences, the work of David Ferrier met with strong criticism from conservative circles in Victorian society. At the end of 19th century certain British neurologists and neurosurgeons – including Ferrier – faced vehement public attacks by those aristocrats who, under the banner of antivivisectionism and “natural theology”, expressed their fears of the reorganization of medicine into a scientific discipline. The debate that developed in Victorian society after these events led not only to the diffusion of Ferrier’s ideas and public recognition of the advanced neurosurgical practices that stemmed from his work, but also contributed to the affirmation of the medical community in the scientific world of the time.

scholarly journals II. Observations on hermetically-sealed flasks opened on the alps. In a letter to Professor Huxley, Sec. R. S. By Professor Tyndall, LL. D., F. R. S

1878 ◽  
Vol 26 (179-184) ◽  
pp. 487-488
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Spontaneous Generation ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Alps

My Dear Huxley,—Though the question of “Spontaneous Generation” is, I believe, practically set at rest for the scientific world, you may possibly deem the following facts of sufficient interest to be communicated to the Royal Society. I brought with me this year to the Alps sixty hermetically-sealed flasks, containing infusions of beef, mutton, turnip, and cucumber, which had been boiled for five minutes in London and sealed during ebullition. They were packed in sawdust, and when opened at the Bel-alp the drawn-out and sealed ends of six of them were found broken off. These six flasks were filled with organisms, the remaining ones were pelluci and free from life.

Eminent Living Geologists: Sketch of the Scientific Life of Thomas Davidson, F.R.S. (With a Portrait.)

1871 ◽  
Vol 8 (82) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Scientific Society ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Society Member ◽  
Linnean Society ◽  
Zoological Society ◽  
Scientific Life ◽  
Mineralogical Society

There are but few men who, having passed many of the best years of their lives in almost constant retirement, have achieved so vast an amount of solid and lasting work, have attained to so high a position amongst their fellow-workers, and the award of whose numerous and well-merited honours has caused greater satisfaction among his scientific brethren than Thomas Davidson, Esq., of Muirhouse, F.R.S., F.G.S., Vice-President, of the Patæontographical Society; Member of the Geological Societies.of France, Edinburgh, and Glasgow; Member étranger de I'lnstitut des Provinces, France, and Linnean Society of Normandy; Imperial Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg and of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow; Royal Academies of Belgium and of Bavaria; Société Royale Hollandaise des Sciences, Haarlem; Royal Society of Liège; Academy of St. Louis; American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia; Zoological Society of Vienna; Palæontological Society of Belgium; Hon. Member of the Geologists' Association, the Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society, etc.

scholarly journals XV. Experimental Researches regarding certain Vibrations which take place between Metallic Masses having different Temperatures

1834 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Lower Temperature ◽  
Experimental Researches

1. On the 17th January 1831, Mr Arthur Trevelyan communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh a paper, entitled “Notice regarding some phenomena observed during the Cooling of certain Metals placed in contact with Lead.” This was the first account published of the remarkable discovery made by that gentleman, of a most curious class of phenomena, which till then was unknown to the scientific world. This paper was afterwards published, with some additions, in the 12th volume of the Transactions of that body, under the title of “Notice regarding some Observations on the Vibrations of Heated Metals.”2. Mr Trevelyan had, in February 1829, first observed the phenomena just alluded to, which consist in certain tremulous motions accompanied by sounds, often highly musical, excited in many metals while hot, placed in contact with lead or tin, at a lower temperature.

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