 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...Robertson, Principal of the University, for the establishment of a Society on a more extended plan.jwhich, upon the model of some of the foreign Academies, should...and taste. This plan was carried into effect ; and "Ike Royal Society of Edinhurgh, which comprehended all the members of the Philosophical 'Society,... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 652 pages
...therefore, in a meeting of those professors, a scheme for the establishment of a new society, which, on the model of some of the foreign academies, should...object the cultivation of every branch of science, literature, and taste ; and as it was to adopt all the members of the philosophical society, the proposal... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 482 pages
...Principal of the University, for the establishment of a Society on a more extended plan, which, uppn the model of some of the foreign Academies, .should...comprehended all the members of the Philosophical Society, jmd many others eminent in s,qence and in literature, was ^n,s porporated by charter from the King,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 482 pages
...was proposed by Dr Robertson, Principal of . the University, for the establishment of a Society on a more . extended plan, which, upon the model of some...object the cultivation of every branch of science, eruditipn and taste. This plan was carried into effect ; and The Royal Society of Edinburgh, which... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1814 - 482 pages
...scheme was proposed by Dr Robertson, Principal of the University, fpr the establishment of a Society on a more extended plan, which, upon the model of some of the foreign Academics, should have for its object the cultivation of every branch of science, erudition and taste.... | |
 | William Jardine - 1842 - 452 pages
...Robertson having matured the plan of a society, upon the model of some of the foreign academies, proposing for its object the cultivation of every branch of science, erudition, and taste, it was carried into effect, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh was incorporated by charter from the... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - 498 pages
...Robertson having matured the plan of a society, upon the model of some of the foreign academies, proposing for its object the cultivation of every branch of science, erudition, and taste, it was carried into effect, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh was incorporated by charter from the... | |
 | sir William Jardine (bart.) - 1876 - 498 pages
...Robertson having matured the plan of a society, upon the model of some of the foreign academies, proposing for its object the cultivation of every branch of science, erudition, and taste, it was carried into effect, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh was incorporated by charter from the... | |
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Transactions was published in 1754, and the second in 175(5, and the third in 1771- In 1782, a scheme was proposed by Dr Robertson, Principal of the University, for the establishment of a Society on a more extended plan, .which, upon the model of some... 