| Carson Samuel Duncan - 1913 - 204 Seiten
...advised ; — ' ' The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes".2' "The business and de^ sign of the Royal Society is — "To improve the knowledge...Things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick Practices, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments ..... "To attempt the recovering of such allowable... | |
| John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1924 - 556 Seiten
...left documents in his own handwriting dated 1663 [cf. Add. MSS. Brit. Mas. 4441] in which he says : 'The business and design of the Royal Society is... To improve the knowledge of natural! things and all useful Arts, Manufaoturies, Mechanick practices, Engynes and Inventions by... | |
| 1947 - 404 Seiten
...natural things, and all useful arts, manufactures, mechanic practises, engynes, and inventions for experiments — (not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics,...Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick or Logick). We have a right to expect, of course, that scientists will take the lead in pointing out both the beneficial... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1880 - 646 Seiten
...business and design of the Royal Society was to improve the knowledge of natural things, and all usefnl arts, manufactures, mechanick practises, engynes and...moralls, politicks, grammar, rhetorick, or logick.)" Dr. Wollaston had made a gift of £1,000 to the Royal Society, the interi-st of which was to be annually... | |
| E. Mendelsohn, H. Nowotny - 1984 - 324 Seiten
...Penguin Books, 1976, p. 92. 17. In the 1663 draft of the statutes of the Royal Society Hooke says: 'The Business and Design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of natural things, and of all useful Arts, Manufacture, Mechanick practices, Engynes and Inventions by... | |
| Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 Seiten
...than 'inter-disciplinary'.] First line of the Odyssey, introducing Odysseus Robert Hooke 1635-1703 100 The business and design of the Royal Society is — to improve the knowledge of natural things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practices, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments... | |
| Robert Proctor - 1991 - 364 Seiten
..."To improve the knowledge of natural things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanics, Practices, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments (not meddling...Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric, or Logick)." Sir Robert Moray, the "soul" of the early Royal Society by one account, in a... | |
| Richard W. F. Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, Perez Zagorin - 1992 - 312 Seiten
...late seventeenth-century date). This defines the " business and design " of the Royal Society as " To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all...Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick)." 39 The sense that the Royal Society should eschew religious matters is found later, as, for instance,... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1993 - 620 Seiten
...curator, Robert Hooke, prepared a draft of its statutes. One excerpt from this document is worth noting: "The business and design of the Royal Society is To improve the knowledge of natural things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practices, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments... | |
| Georg Kneer - 1995 - 372 Seiten
...Statuten einer zu gründenden "Royal Society" von 1663 kommt dies erstmals prägnant zum Ausdruck: "The Business and Design of the Royal Society is:...things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanick practices, Engynes and Inventions by Experiments - (not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls,... | |
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