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Astronomical Society

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From the picture source website: "... conceived on 12 January 1820 when 14 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields .... the new Society was born on 10 March 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society as a whole."  Became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831.

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Astronomical Society

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William Wollaston - lost plaque

We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...

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Ambrose Godfrey

Ambrose Godfrey

Apothecary. Born in Köthen (Anhalt). Also known as Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz and Gottfried Hankwitz or Hanckewitz. In 1679 he travelled to London and became an assistant to Robert Boyle. They worke...

Person, Science, Germany

1 memorial
Henry Doubleday

Henry Doubleday

Naturalist. Born at 62 (the site of which is now number 271) High Street, Epping, Essex. He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, and named a number of new species...

Person, Science

1 memorial
David Edward Hughes

David Edward Hughes

Born and died in London but grew up in the US.

Person, Science, USA

1 memorial
Marquis Pierre Simon de La Place

Marquis Pierre Simon de La Place

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, was born on 23 March 1749 in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France, the fourth of the five children of Pierre Laplace and Marie-Anne Laplace née Sochon. His father wa...

Person, Science, France

1 memorial
Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus

Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried b...

Person, Race Issues, Science, Sweden

2 memorials