Write a note on Royal Society.
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The history is the Royal society is very significant as it
showed the socio-political atmosphere of London .
The Royal Society, founded in 1660
in London
had a tremendous impact. The full title of the society was, “The Royal Society of
for promoting natural knowledge”. It was on 18th Nov, 1660 when
twelve members of the Group Gatheral and Gresham College following
a lecture by Christopher Wren , Robert Boyle , John Wilkins , Sir Robert Moray , William and Viscount Brouncker were among those present in the
college at the time of society’s formation process. It was decided that once a
week, the society would go through the relevance of recent experiments and
finding. While Robert Hook
was the first curator of experiments, Robert Moray
was responsible for securing the permission and approval of the king. The Royal
society was based at Gresham
College , the place where
it first germinated.
The
Royal Society was located for a time in “Arundel House” after the
Great Fire of London .
The society was highly ambitious which aimed to accommodate any form of
knowledge under its previews. It was systematically designed that the society
would encourage the cultivation and nurturing at a lucid and sound intellectual
attitude.
The best reflection of it was
found in Thomas Sprat ’s “History of the Royal Society”.
Sprat’s example paved the way for a series of important, intellectual and scientific
engagement that shaped the course of serious English language. The Royal
society emerged as a model for scientist and writers and the neo-classical bent
came to be closely associated with eth kind of position the society sought
dispouse in its early age. Sprat’s of the early Royal Society changed the
entire perspective of the intellectual thinking that initiated the series of
measures to accommodate both working scientist to financially support.
All
the best & wishing best, by P.B.