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		At first apparently nameless, the name The Royal Society first appears in print in 1661 and in the second Royal Charter of 1663, the Society is referred to as 'The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge'.
		The Society found accommodation at Gresham College and rapidly began to acquire a library (the first book was presented in 1661) and a repository or museum of specimens of scientific interest.
		The Society moved again in 1780 to premises at Somerset House provided by the Crown, an arrangement made by Sir Joseph Banks who had become President in 1778 and was to remain so until his death in 1820.
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	Royal Society -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Royal Society of (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London is claimed to be the oldest (Click link for more info and facts about learned society) learned society still in existence.
		It's possible that the Royal Society was one of the first documented aspirations toward (Click link for more info and facts about Open Content) Open Content; they imagined a network across the globe as a public enterprise, an "Empire of Learning".
		Although this seems obvious today, the philosophical basis of the Royal Society differed from previous philosophies such as (The system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers) Scholasticism, which established scientific truth based on deductive logic, concordance with divine providence and the citation of such ancient authorities as Aristotle.
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	HUMANE SOCIETY, ROYAL - LoveToKnow Article on HUMANE SOCIETY, ROYAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The meanings of hull and hold are somewhat far apart, and the closest sense resemblance is to the word hulk, which is not known till about a century later.HULLAH, JOHN PYKE (18121884), English composer and teacher of music, was born at Worcester on the 27th June1812.
		This society was founded in - England in 1774 for the purpose of rendering first aid in cases of drowning and for restoring life by artificial means to thoseapparently drowned.
		The society, the chief offices of which are at 4 Trafalgar Square, London, has upwards of 280 depots throughout the kingdom, supplied with life-saving apparatus.
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	AllRefer.com - Royal Society (Science, General) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Royal Society was first incorporated in 1662 as the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.
		The Royal Society ranks as the foremost organization of its kind; its membership always includes leading scientists of the world.
		Among those who served as president of the Royal Society are Samuel Pepys, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Huggins, Lord Rayleigh, Sir Archibald Geikie, Sir William Crookes, Sir Joseph John Thomson, Sir Charles Sherrington, Lord Rutherford, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, and Sir William Henry Bragg.
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	Royal Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660.
		The Royal Irish Academy, founded in 1782, is also closely affiliated with it.
		Isaac Newton demonstrated his theory of optics to them, and later became president of the society.
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	Royal Society
		The Royal Australian Historical Society 1901-2001: Part III Closing the first hundred years: the Society from the 1980s to 2001.
		The admission of women Fellows to the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1914; the controversy and the outcome.
		Royal Society of Chemistry votes to broaden membership structure.
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	Royal Society - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Prior to the Royal Society, the term Science did not exist as we know it.
		Women, Science and Medicine 1500-1700: Mothers and Sisters of the Royal Society
		Transitions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society: The Journal of Victorian Era Roleplaying
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