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Royal Society

British science society
Also known as: Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge(Show More)
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Michael Hunter
Emeritus Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London. Author of The Royal Society and Its Fellows, 1660-1700; Boyle: Between God and Science; and others.
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Royal Society, the oldest national scientific society in the world and the leading national organization for the promotion of scientific research in Britain. The Royal Society originated on November 28, 1660, when 12 men met after a lecture at Gresham College, London, by Christopher Wren (then professor of astronomy at the college) and resolved to set up “a Colledge for the promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning.” Those present included the scientists Robert Boyle and Bishop...

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