List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1669

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This is a list of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in its 10th year, 1669. [1]

Royal Society English learned society for science

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society. Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as "The Royal Society". It is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. The society is the United Kingdom's and Commonwealth of Nations' Academy of Sciences and fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, fostering international and global co-operation, education and public engagement.

Fellows

Anthony Horneck German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England

Anthony Horneck was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, curate of St Giles Cripplegate.

Marcello Malpighi Italian physician

Marcello Malpighi was an Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is born by several physiological features related to the biological excretory system, such as the Malpighian corpuscles and Malpighian pyramids of the kidneys and the Malpighian tubule system of insects. The splenic lymphoid nodules are often called the "Malpighian bodies of the spleen" or Malpighian corpuscles. The botanical family Malpighiaceae is also named after him. He was the first person to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins that had eluded William Harvey. Malpighi was one of the earliest people to observe red blood cells under a microscope, after Jan Swammerdam. His treatise De polypo cordis (1666) was important for understanding blood composition, as well as how blood clots. In it, Malpighi described how the form of a blood clot differed in the right against the left sides of the heart.

Georg Stiernhielm Swedish noble

Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet.

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Thomas Sprat English bishop

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Anthony Lowther, FRS was an English landowner, of Marske-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire and Member of Parliament.

Titus van Rijn child of Dutch painter Rembrandt

Titus van Rijn was the fourth and only surviving child of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburgh. Titus is best known as a figure or model in his father's paintings and studies.

Sir Peter Wyche was an English diplomat and translator.

Henry Clerke was an English academic and physician, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1672.

Edward Chamberlayne English writer

Edward Chamberlayne was an English writer, known as the author of The Present State of England.

Urban Hjärne scholar

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Bullen Reymes was an English courtier, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1672. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War.

Hugh Hodges MP JP was a lawyer and Member of Parliament for Bridport in the reign of James II.

References

  1. ↑ "Fellows of the Royal Society", Royal Society. "Fellowship from 1660 onwards" (xlsx file on Google Docs via the Royal Society)
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