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  Lunar Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lunar Society was a discussion club of prominent industrialists and scientists who met regularly between 1765 and 1813 in Birmingham, England.
As the members grew older and died, the Lunar Society was closed in 1813, and most former members had died by 1820.
Among memorials to the Society and its members are the Moonstones; two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, by William Bloye; and the museum at Soho House – all in Birmingham, England.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_Society   (291 words)

  
 Lunar Society - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Lunar Society was a discussion club, of a number of prominent industrialists and scientists, who met regularly in the latter half of the 18th century in Birmingham, England.
Among memorials to the Society are the Moonstones; two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, by William Bloye; and the museum at Soho House – all in Birmingham, England.
The lake regions of central equatorial Africa, with notices of the Lunar Mountains and the sources of the White Nile: Being the results of an expedition...
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /lunar_society.htm   (418 words)

  
 The Lunar Society, Birmingham UK
Boulton was key to the Lunar Society, having invited his most learned friends and generally hosting the meetings at his residence at Soho House.
The society was formed around 1765 and brought geologists, chemists, scientists, engineers and theorists together to discuss new inventions and new ideas.
The Lunar Society was held together through the keen interest of its members and to some extent the personal friendship that developed as a result.
www.birminghamuk.com /lunarsociety.htm   (337 words)

  
 1775 - Birmingham - Lunar Society of Birmingham - History of Scholarly Societies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first meeting of the Lunar Society is given as Sunday, 31 December 1775 on p.141 of Schofield (1963).
The group took the name Lunar Society, according to p.3 and p.145 of Schofield (1963), because they generally scheduled their dinner meetings on the Sunday or Monday closest to the Full Moon.
And on p.414 of Schofield (1963), Schofield indicates that the Lunar Society went into decline after 1791, but he acknowledges that Eric Robinson had cited evidence of meetings of the Lunar Society as late as 1801.
www.scholarly-societies.org /history/1775lsb.html   (282 words)

  
 Lunar Society Moonstones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Moonstones are a set of eight carved memorials to various members of the Lunar Society.
Made in 1998, they can be viewed in the grounds of the Asda supermarket in Great Barr, Birmingham, England.
Great Barr Hall, Galton's home and a venue for meetings of the Lunar Society, is nearby.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_Society_Moonstones   (195 words)

  
 usfq/universidad/campus
The Lunar Society of Quito is a group of students, faculty, and guests from the community who meet for informal discussions of philosophical topics of interest to the group.
The initial Lunar Society met on or near the full moon so that it would be easier to travel home after the meeting.
We believe The Lunar Society of Quito is the first Lunar Society in Latin America.
www.usfq.edu.ec /1LUNARSOCIETY/index.html   (349 words)

  
 News : PROFESSOR WARNS OF THE REAL SEXUAL DANGERS FACING CHILDREN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Lunar Society invited Professor Wilson to deliver a speech at their May meting to Lunar Society members including lawyers, representatives of local and central Government and religious leaders titled 'What are the real sexual dangers that threaten our children?'
Said Professor Wilson: "I am very grateful to the Lunar Society for giving me the opportunity to discuss what seems to me to be one of the most anguishing and pressing issues that we have to face as a culture.
Focusing on Birmingham, the Society generated ideas which had (and still have) a significant effect on the development of both the city and the country as a whole.
www.uce.ac.uk /web2/releases04/3482.html   (439 words)

  
 The Lunar Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Society does not itself take positions, but provides a forum for its membership to influence change through focusing debate, linking social, economic, scientific and cultural thinking and catalysing action on issues critical to the future of the city and the region as a whole.
The new Lunar Society was involved in the refurbishment of the Lunar Room at Soho House, Matthew Boulton's home in Handsworth where the original Society frequently met.
Candidates for membership of the Society must be proposed and seconded by members of the Society; their election to membership rests with the Executive Committee.
www.lunarsociety.org.uk   (513 words)

  
 Lunar Prospector Team
Lunar Prospector Team is a dba of the Houston Space Society, which means it is a registered business alias of our non-profit corporation.
In attendance at the conference were representatives from the Houston Space Society, the Space Studies Institute, ExtraTerrestrial Materials Inc., International Space University, the Lunar Society, Milwaukee Lunar Reclamation Society, National Space Society, the New Orleans Space Society, Space Frontier Foundation, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, and Washington State Citizens for Space.
The painting depicts a lunar orbiting spacecraft with an alpha particle spectrometer in the foreground.
www.houstonspacesociety.org /lpt.html   (1327 words)

  
 Lunar Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ramadan is a holy month that consists of fasting for 29 to 30 days, depending on the lunar calendar.
shadow at the peak of the eclipse at 10pm, Perry Vlahos from the Astronomical Society of Victoria...
Among memorials to the Society are the Moonstones, two statues of Watt and a statue of Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, by William Bloye, and the museum at Soho House, all in Birmingham.
www.wikiverse.org /lunar-society   (371 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lunar Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Baskerville (January 28, 1706 - January 8, 1775) was a printer in Birmingham, and an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society.
William Small (1734-1775) was a British physician and a member of the Lunar Society.
As the members grew older and died, the Lunar Society was closed in 1813, and all former members had died by 1820.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lunar-Society   (1259 words)

  
 HobbySpace - Space Activism - Part 2
The Lunar Prospector, for example, originated in the late 1980's as a volunteer project supported by the Space Studies Institute and the Houston Space Society (ref).
The Lunar Prospector was built and launched by Lockheed-Martin in the fall of 1997 and in early 1998 it made the major discovery of water ice at the North and South Poles of the moon.
The Artemis Society is a nonprofit group that provides a meeting ground for supporters and participants in the project.
www.hobbyspace.com /Active/active2.html   (2572 words)

  
 Lunar Registry :: Lunar Links :: Moon-Related Web Sites
The American Lunar Society -- ALS conducts several important educational programs, including one directed toward grade-school students, to encourage a wider appreciation and understanding of Luna.
Clementine Lunar Image Browser -- The extraordinary lunar imaging project, conducted as a joint venture of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), along with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), produced some of the finest images ever of the Moon.
Lunar Sections -- One of the finest online photographic references, melding excellent lunar surface photographs from NASA and amateur astronomers into a sectional directory of the Moon, keyed to the essential "Atlas of the Moon" by Antonín Rükl.
www.lunarregistry.com /info/links.shtml   (620 words)

  
 B.I.P.E.D. :: Articles :: Scientific Dictatorship
With the British Royal Society acting as their headquarters of propaganda, the elite had created an institution to provide credibility for their specially designed 'science.' Now, they needed to introduce the 'science.' Recall that the founding members of the Royal Society were all Freemasons.
Erasmus Darwin was the founder of the Lunar Society.
According to author Ian Taylor, the Lunar Society was active from about 1764 to 1800 and its prominent influence 'continued long afterwards under the banner of The Royal Society.' The group's name owed itself to the fact that members met monthly at the time of the full moon.
www.biped.info /articles/collins1.html   (5028 words)

  
 Lunar Republic · Official Website Of The Moon
The Lunar Embassy's Canadian franchisee, a fugitive wanted on fraud charges, is arrested outside a Las Vegas casino; had gambled with "moon owner" Dennis Hope in Las Vegas prior to disappearance.
The organizers of the Kennedy II Lunar Exploration Project have announced that they will accept financial support from the Lunar Republic Society and its partners as part of a $3.5-billion effort toward a commercial mission to build settlements on the Moon.
The most comprehensive Lunar atlas ever released online to the public is now available to everyone.
www.lunarrepublic.com   (541 words)

  
 The Lunar Men: The Friends who made the Future - smh.com.au
In England in the late 18th century, though, it was possible for a group of friends, none of them academics, to meet and talk science at a high level.
They called themselves the Lunar Society because they met on the Sunday nearest the full moon every month, when there would be enough light for them to ride home after the meeting.
The story of the Lunar Society, then, is partly a story of radical fellow travellers, who understand neither the feelings of the rest of the populace nor the cunning of the ideologues whose activities they supported from a safe distance.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/02/14/1044927785775.html   (704 words)

  
 Lunar Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Lunar Society was a discussion club of a number of prominent industrialists and scientists who met regularly in the latter of the 18th century in Birmingham England.
The society's name came from their of scheduling their meetings at the time the full moon.
Among memorials to the Society are the Moonstones two statues of Watt and a of Boulton Watt and Murdoch by William Bloye and the museum at Soho House in Birmingham.
www.freeglossary.com /Lunar_Society   (402 words)

  
 Moon Society: Lunar Directory of Moon Related Projects & Organizations
ALS created the Lunar Study and Observing Certificate program which is now cosponsored by the Moon Society.
is The Lunar Research Institute is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation devoted to the exploration and utilization of the Moon for the benefit of Humankind.
LRI had its beginnings with the innovative mission, Lunar Prospector, which produced by far the most in-depth scientific data of the Moon to date.
www.moonsociety.org /lunar-directory   (749 words)

  
 Lunar Reclamation Society, Inc. Entrance
It is important to have a plan that all space enthusiasts can get behind.
We do NOT support the plan to design a lunar outpost solely to support future manned expeditions to Mars.
A Moonbase should experiment and demonstrate technologies to use lunar resources - and astronomy from the Moon.
www.lunar-reclamation.org   (149 words)

  
 No. 168: The Lunar Society
It was called the Lunar Society because it met during the full moon.
So the Lunar Society was far from the first of these groups, but it was unique for its startling membership.
Schofield, R. The Lunar Society at Birmingham: a social history of provincial science and industry in eighteenth-century England, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
www.uh.edu /engines/epi168.htm   (490 words)

  
 Buy Moon Property! An Acre On The Moon From The Lunar Registry
Through our alliance with the Lunar Republic Society and the Kennedy II Project, we are on a fast track to return to the Moon by the end of this decade.
Officially authorized by the Lunar Republic Society, the leading advocacy group for private ownership of the Moon, and in accordance with the Lunar Settlement Initiative, your land claim purchase benefits the
Lunar Republic SA and may not be used without permission.
www.lunarregistry.com   (419 words)

  
 Lunar Republic Society : Official Flag Of The Lunar Republic
The flag of the Lunar Republic is an unpretentious standard in basic colors, but instantly recognizable by the message it conveys.
The bottom third of the flag is a field of blue that represents the Earth (the "Blue Planet") from which we came; the upper two-thirds encompass a field of plain fl, representing the night sky and outer space; finally, centered in the upper field is a white disk that symbolizes the full Lunar Moon.
The Flag of the Lunar Republic is a trademark of the Lunar Republic Society.
www.lunarrepublic.com /info/flag.shtml   (315 words)

  
 The Lunar Men - Jenny Uglow
The core is a group of five friends -- Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt -- who established a Lunar Society that met monthly (on or close to the full moon, to better find their way back home again afterwards).
The Lunar men lived in remarkable times, too -- most of the book focusses on the second half of the 18th century, a time of great innovation (scientific and otherwise), burgeoning industrialization, and increasing consumerism.
The paths of the central figures ultimately seem to tug in too many directions, and the Lunar Society itself isn't focussed on enough to lend the book the necessary cohesion.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/scibio/uglowj.htm   (1767 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Their "Lunar Society" included Joseph Priestley, the chemist who isolated oxygen; James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the steam engine; and Josiah Wedgwood, whose manufacture of pottery created the industrial model for the next century.
He also had a particular interest in the Lunar Men's project of the canal system, which was a focus for their technological and geological enthusiasms, as a way of getting raw materials to his factories and finished wares to London.
The Lunar Men helped form their society in significant ways; Uglow is very good, however, in showing historic influences on them, and a reader will learn plenty here about the American and French Revolutions, as well as the Industrial one, and in science, the revolutionary schemes of Linnaeus and Lavoisier.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374194408?v=glance   (2417 words)

  
 Lunar Reclamation Society - Home
We serve as a chapter of the National Space Society [NSS], headquartered in Washington DC, with over forty chapters, and more than 25,000 members worldwide.
The Artemis Society hosts the Archive of MMM Back Issues as a joint project.
used as the basis of menu buttons, is courtesy of Simon Rowland of the Artemis Society.
www.lunar-reclamation.org /page1a.htm   (680 words)

  
 Solar System Links
The Lunar Prospector mission was designed to study the Lunar surface and Geological structures, search for evidence of polar ice deposits, and to measure Lunar magnetic and gravity fields.
The American Meteor Society is a non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the field of Meteor Astronomy.
The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1933 to promote the study of extraterrestrial materials and their history.
www.astronomywebguide.com /links_solar_system.html   (5633 words)

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