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Martin Folkes and the Royal Society Presidency
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The Royal Society under Martin Folkes’s presidency not only promoted pioneering experiments in biological vitalism, but embraced new investigations in static electricity, primarily with the use of insulators. This chapter analyses Folkes’s patronage of the electrical work of artist and natural philosopher Benjamin Wilson, and to what extent Wilson was influenced by the Irish natural philosopher and physician Bryan Robinson. Lastly, the chapter delineates the Royal Society’s research in seismology and electricity, precipitated by the the London earthquakes of the 1750s.
Title: Martin Folkes and the Royal Society Presidency
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The Royal Society under Martin Folkes’s presidency not only promoted pioneering experiments in biological vitalism, but embraced new investigations in static electricity, primarily with the use of insulators.
This chapter analyses Folkes’s patronage of the electrical work of artist and natural philosopher Benjamin Wilson, and to what extent Wilson was influenced by the Irish natural philosopher and physician Bryan Robinson.
Lastly, the chapter delineates the Royal Society’s research in seismology and electricity, precipitated by the the London earthquakes of the 1750s.
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