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French Academy of Sciences

learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research

12 dated entries naming French Academy of Sciences, drawn from 8 separate years between 1666 CE and 1860 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Académie des sciences in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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17th century

  • 1666December 22 – The French Academy of Sciences, founded by Louis XIV, first meets.source
  • 166622 December – The French Academy of Sciences, founded by the king, first meets.source
  • 169920 January: Louis XIV gave the French Academy of Sciences its first rules.source

18th century

  • 1736June 19 – A French Academy of Sciences expedition, led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Torne Valley, Finland.source
  • 1736June 19 – French Academy of Sciences expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Torne Valley of Finland.source
  • 1746Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the Académie des sciencessource
  • 1760April 30 – Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli presents a paper at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in which "a mathematical model was used for the first time to study the population dynamics of infectious disease."source

19th century

  • 1818July 29 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light" to the French Academy of Sciences, precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.source
  • 181829 July - Physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light" to the French Academy of Sciences, precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.source
  • 1839January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the daguerreotype photography process.source
  • 18399 January – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.source
  • 1860January 2 – The astronomer Urbain Le Verrier announces the discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.source

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