| Title: | Royal Society of Sciences |
| Original Title: | Société royale des Sciences |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 260 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Michele Pridmiore-Brown [Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Royal Society of Sciences." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Michele Pridmiore-Brown. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2004. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.196>. Trans. of "Société royale des Sciences," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Royal Society of Sciences." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Michele Pridmiore-Brown. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.196 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Société royale des Sciences," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:260 (Paris, 1765). |
The Royal Society of Sciences is the name Louis XIV gave to the Institute he founded in Montpellier. He chose this site because it is a famous well-situated city, and because of its serene air, which makes it easier than in other places to undertake useful and interesting observations and research. He also chose it because of the number of the learned who come there from all parts, or who, once there, organize themselves into the different branches of the sciences, especially in the most important one of the natural sciences. The King can further inspire the members—insofar as the Royal Society remains under his protection in the same way as the Royal Academy of Sciences, and so permits intimate relations between the two as if they were but one body. The King stipulates that these two academies would send each other copies of all that they publish in their respective names; that they together examine all important matters; that the members of each be able to present research in the assemblies of the other; and that the Royal Society of Sciences send one of their articles each year to be read in the assemblies of the Royal Academy and published in their volumes, etc. See letters—patents and statutes of February 1706.
This Societ y has in all respects obeyed the wishes and stipulations of His Majesty; all the sciences have been cultivated with much zeal and success. And, although Medicine is the favored science of this city, which indeed has been its cradle and first home in France, and although special consideration is given to subjects relating to Medicine, nonetheless there are also distinguished individuals in others fields of the natural sciences and of mathematics. Proof lies in several articles in this very Dictionary.