Cambridge Library Collection-Physical Sciences Ser.: History of the Royal ...

History of the Royal SocietyFrom its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Thomas Thomson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108028158, 978-1108028158\nSynopsis\nThe Royal Society has been dedicated to scientific inquiry since the seventeenth century. In 1811, Thomas Thomson [tel], a pioneering chemistry teacher who was elected a fellow of the society in the same year, undertook the project of writing a history of the organisation's illustrious past. In this book, published in 1812, Thomson explains how the group began in 1645, initiated by men who met once a week to discuss natural philosophy and mathematics. They were eventually granted a royal charter by Charles II in 1662. The society grew in number and prestige, and began publishing research in its Philosophical Transactions in 1665. Thomson's work focuses particularly on the development of the group's many scientific.