Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV in 1667, by Henri Testelin; in the background appears the new Paris Observatory. The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences, [akademi de sjɑ̃s]) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific ...
The Paris Observatory was founded in 1667. [1].Construction was completed by the early 1670s and coincided with a major push for increased science, and the founding of the Royal Academy of Sciences. [2] [self-published source?
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. [ 2 ] The society is governed by its Council, which is chaired by the society's president, according to a set of statutes and standing orders.
Claude Bourdelin (French pronunciation: [klod buʁdəlɛ̃]; c. 1621 – 14 October 1699) was a French apothecary and a pioneer of iatrochemistry. He was among the first chemists, along with Samuel Cottereau du Clos, to serve in the French Academy of Sciences at the time of its founding in 1666, chosen by Jean-Baptiste Colbert on behalf of ...
Samuel Cottereau du Clos or Duclos (18 November 1598 – 1685) was a French physician and apothecary who was among the first members of the Royal Academy of Sciences in France founded by Louis XIV in 1666. He contributed to an early chemical analysis of the mineral waters from around France, examined the composition of plant matter.
Some of the oldest learned societies are the Académie des Jeux floraux (founded 1323), [4] Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana (founded 1488), Accademia della Crusca (founded 1583), [5] Accademia dei Lincei (founded 1603), [6] Académie Française (founded 1635), [7] German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (founded 1652), [8] Royal Society (founded 1660) and French Academy of Sciences ...
The Royal Society of Canada, initiated in 1882, was modeled after the Institut de France and the Royal Society of London. The Lebanese Academy of Sciences, known officially by its French name "Académie des Sciences du Liban" (ASL), is broadly fashioned after the French Academy of Sciences, with which it continues to develop joint programmes.