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Connections
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Travel | Marie Stopes | Her academic career took her almost around the world. First she went to Japan for two years, from 1907, to be attached to the University of Tokyo
on a research grant from the Royal Society |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | CH
's An Account of a New Comet (her recent discovery) was read for her at a meeting of the Royal Society
. The account was printed by John Nichols
as a pamphlet the following year. |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | The Royal Society
issued, with her name, CH
's Catalogue of Stars, an updating and radical expansion of Flamsteed
's canonical but by now inadequate catalogue of fixed stars (published in 1725). English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Margaret Cavendish | This has only a single prefatory piece. Cavendish here makes use of empirical science: the Royal Society
's experiments with blood transfusion, recently reported. Moore, Judith. “The Duchess of Newcastle as Seventeenth-Century Writer and Twentieth-Century Feminist”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford. |
Textual Features | Eva Figes | A strangely static book, this novel is in form a stream of reminiscence by an aged female protagonist, who mixes past and present, without consecutive narrative. (This is actually a slightly more conventional version than... |
Residence | Elizabeth Tollet | During Elizabeth's mother's lifetime the Tollet family lived at York Buildings, near Whitehall Palace, London, where George Tollet also probably had his office. The buildings were a centre of intellectual life: a select group... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | The Royal Society of London
commissioned Sir Francis Chantrey
to sculpt MS
's bust for their Great Hall. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 175 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 89 |
Reception | Mary Somerville | Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 86-7 |
Publishing | Mary Somerville | The results of MS
's first experimental investigation of the connection between light and magnetism were presented to the Royal Society
by William Somerville
; they later appeared in the Society's Philosophical Transactions. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 213 Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 47 |
Publishing | Mary Somerville | After conducting a set of experiments on the effect of sunlight on vegetable juices, MS
sent a report of her method and results to John Herschel
, who presented her findings to the Royal Society
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 213, 214 |
Other Life Event | Margaret Cavendish | Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
, on a rare visit to London with her husband
, was entertained by the Royal Society
as a distinguished visitor. Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury. 162 |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Occupation | Sir Isaac Newton | Isaac Newton
was elected President of the Royal Society
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cambridge University Press. 19: 590 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Sir Isaac Newton | The telescope brought him fame and an invitation to join the Royal Society
, though it also brought an acrimonious controversy with Robert Hooke
. |
Occupation | John Dryden | By this time Dryden's two careers as writer and dramatist were well launched. The first depended on his ability to please the Stuart court, and the second on his ability to please a theatre audience... |
Timeline
18 May 1661: The group which later became the Royal Society...
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18 May 1661
The group which later became the Royal Society
received its first gift of a rarity for its Repository.
15 July 1662: The Royal Society was chartered by the king...
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15 July 1662
The Royal Society
was chartered by the king
from the existing philosophic society centred on Gresham's College
.
15 October 1662: John Evelyn made a presentation to the Royal...
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15 October 1662
John Evelyn
made a presentation to the Royal Society
on the deforestation of England and the need to plant trees; this was the germ of his Sylva, Or A Discourse Of Forest Trees, which...
1665: The Royal Society, founded the previous year,...
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1665
The Royal Society
, founded the previous year, published its first number of Philosophical Transactions, the earliest scientific journal.
1668: Martha Taylor attracted attention for fasting:...
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1668
Martha Taylor
attracted attention for fasting: the first published account, largely in her own words, presented her abstinence as holy; an account for the Royal Society
attacked both this text and Taylor herself.
28 January 1684: The Dublin Philosophical Society, recently...
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28 January 1684
The DublinPhilosophical Society
, recently founded on the model of the Royal Society
of London, met to formulate rules and draw up its first list of members.
5 July 1687: Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ naturalis...
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5 July 1687
Sir Isaac Newton
published Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica; it was the first work on the movements of the planets to back its statements with detailed mathematical calculations.
1707: Hans Sloane, later President of the Royal...
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1707
Hans Sloane
, later President of the Royal Society
, published the first volume of the work generally called Natural History of Jamaica, with its short, casual account of slavery, detailing but defending the...
1723: James Jurin, Secretary of the Royal Society,...
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1723
James Jurin
, Secretary of the Royal Society
, published a pioneering work of statistical analysis, A Letter to the Learned Caleb Cotesworth
. . . Containing A Comparison Between the Morality of the Natural...
20 November 1753: The Royal Society conferred its gold medal...
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20 November 1753
The Royal Society
conferred its gold medal on Benjamin Franklin
for his experiments with electricity.
1777: The Royal Society received another account...
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1777
The Royal Society
received another account of a young woman refusing food, that of Janet Macleod
of the county of Ross in Scotland, who had what was called an epileptic fit at fifteen...
22 October 1786: The Royal Society heard a paper on the practice...
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22 October 1786
The Royal Society
heard a paper on the practice of measuring babies' birthweights: for the first time in Britain, at a Dublin Lying-in Hospital.
1825-1839: Catherine Gilbert, daughter of Davies Gilbert...
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1825-1839
Catherine Gilbert
, daughter of Davies Gilbert
(President of the Royal Society
from 1828-1831), conducted most of the work of the small private printing press established by her father in their home at Eastbourne.
1830: Charles Babbage published Reflections on...
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1830
Charles Babbage
published Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, an excoriating attack on the Royal Society
and a call for science to be given a leadership role in British society, with proper...
1831: The Royal Society, considered the leading...
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1831
The Royal Society
, considered the leading institution of natural science in Britain, started the publication of Proceedings of the Royal Society, which featured abstracts of members' papers.
Texts
Herschel, Caroline. Catalogue of Stars. Royal Society, 1798.