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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 ...
Royal Academy of Sciences may refer to: French Academy of Sciences; Royal Academy of Sciences of Bologna; Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences; Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences; Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, now the Sciences Academy of Lisbon
His Name hath been known for many years among the Learned by Several Curious disertations published in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris & in particular by a very Learned and usefull book wrote in French entitled 'The Art of Converting Forged Iron into Steel' and 'the Art of Soft'ning Cast Iron' printed at Paris 1722 4to and ...
An academy of sciences is a type of learned society or academy (as special scientific institution) dedicated to sciences that may or may not be state funded. Some state funded academies are national , or royal (i.e. United Kingdom's Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge ) as a form of honor.
The Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique [akademi ʁwajal de sjɑ̃s de lɛtʁ e de boz‿aʁ də bɛlʒik], sometimes referred to as La Thérésienne [la teʁezjɛn]) is the independent learned society of science and arts of the French Community of Belgium.
Jean-Baptiste-Michel Bucquet (French:; 18 February 1746 – 24 January 1780) was a French chemist, member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences, physician and public teacher. Life and work [ edit ]
From at least 1743, the Royal Academy of Sciences identified Nollet as the person who was particularly in charge of research about electricity. [7] In 1753 he became the first professor of experimental physics in France, at the collège de Navarre, University of Paris. [8] [9] In 1762, he was named director of the Royal Academy of Sciences. [9]
In 1727 he gained the prize given by the French Academy of Sciences for his paper On the masting of ships, beating Leonhard Euler; and two other prizes, one for his dissertation On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at sea, the other for his paper On the best method of observing the variation of the compass at sea. [1]