Royal Society [ Institutions / Clubs & Societies ]
… The National Archives, PROB 5/1324. Image Thomas Murray, 'Portrait of William Dampier', National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 538, 1780. Résumé Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific institution. In the … but the activities that brought them together were also profoundly social and dictated by social convention. Like other London academies, the Royal Society conformed to eighteenth-century notions of sociability. In the spaces of Gresham … on medicine, anatomy, experimental philosophy and antiquities. 4 . Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (London: Thomas Roycroft, 1667), p. 145. 5 . Richard Sorrenson, ‘Towards a History of the Royal Society in the Eighteenth …
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