Royal Society
About Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Royal Society, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement and fostering international and global co-operation. 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.
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The Royal Society in 1713 set up a committee to decide once and for all who'd invented calculus — Newton or Leibniz — and it found that it was Newton. Who was chair of the committee?
from No Such Thing As Apocalypse 1988, 2015-12-11 at 00:30:45 · read transcript
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We don't have evidence. I think there was one painting, and he and Newton hated each other. They had a massive rivalry, and Newton did erase him from scientific history for a long time. We all think Newton's the good guy, but then he became president of the Royal Society who happened to have this painting, which has disappeared ever since. He erased him, but all that survived were the orgasms. Poor guy.
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So it was eventually published in 1687. There was a point where it wasn't going to be published because of the situation that they were in. That's really interesting. Yeah. I have another Royal Society bit, which is that there was a bit of, well, today it's generally accepted that both Newton and Leibniz came up with calculus independently. There was a while when it was sort of.
No Such Thing As Apocalypse 1988, 2015-12-11 · listen
Pretty cool. Great. Why does it? Why? The blue plaque, plaque one, as I'm going to call it from now on, is to Isaac Newton. It was his home when he was the president of the Royal Society. It's in German Street, which is quite near Piccadilly in London. The building was rebuilt. It was finished in 1915. The plaque was reattached. It then had a supplementary plaque attached, saying this plaque was, you know, reattached.
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