The Royal Society, or, Science in the state and in the schools / by Sir William Huggins ; with twenty-five illustrations.

  • William Huggins
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: The Royal Society, or, Science in the state and in the schools / by Sir William Huggins ; with twenty-five illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS On the Cover . . The Arms of the Royal Society. (See p. 8.) [From the Reverse of the Copley Medal.] Frontispiece . . From an Engraving by Hollar, which forms the Frontispiece to the large-paper edition of Spratt’s History of the Royal Society published in 1667. The design, furnished by Evelyn, contains two principal figures ; the first President of the Society, Lord Brouncker, is on one side of the bust of the Royal Founder, and on the other is Francis Bacon, with the title of Artium Instaurator. On the Title-page . A Medallion of Roger Bacon (1214-1294). Copy of an engraving on copper, made under the super- intendence of Charles Babbage directly from the medal itself, by an improved form of machine invented by Mr. John Bate. The Medal forms one of a series of eminent men struck at the Royal Mint of Munich. PLATES Facing page PLATE I. Old Gresham College .... 2 ,, II. Meeting-room of the Royal Society in Bur- lington House (since 1873) . . 4 [Over the President’s chair hangs the Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by Vanderbank.]
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