File:Philosophical judgment Decr I. 1777 (BM 1857,0520.309).jpg
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[edit]Philosophical judgment Decr I. 1777
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Title |
Philosophical judgment Decr I. 1777 |
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English: A meeting of the Royal Society, the president in the chair and raised above the level of the other members. Members of the Council sit on his right and left. behind a long table. Except for a clergyman on the president's right all the Council appear to be asleep or yawning. The backs of the heads of members of the Society appear in the foreground; they seem to be lifting up their hands in astonishment at the proceedings of the Council. The president, who wears a hat, holds in his right hand a MS., "Short on Grinding"; in his left the "Copley" medal. On the table is a mace, and papers inscribed, "Natl History"; "Anatomy"; "Nat. Philo[sophy]". On the wall above the President's head is a bust of a man with the full wig of Queen Anne's reign. On each side of it is a picture: (left) Midas with long ass's ears judging between Apollo and Marsyas; above it is written "Aures Asininas habet Rex Midas", and beneath "Veluti in Speculum". On the right. is a picture of the president with ass's ears, seated at the head of a table holding up a medal with sleeping members on each side of him; above it is written "Redivivus 1777 Dormiente Consilio", and beneath, "Et in Arcadia Ego". On the upper part of the design is etched in large letters "Nil Admirari". 1 December 1777
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Depicted people | Associated with: Dr Sir John Pringle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1777 date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Accession number |
1857,0520.309 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) Sir John Pringle was president of the Society 1772-8, making six annual discourses on the value of the investigations rewarded by the Copley medal. James Short (1710-68), optician, a member of the Royal Society, deposited with the Society a sealed paper to be read publicly after his death, describing a method of working object-lenses to a truly spherical form. For the Royal Society see also BMSat 2477 (1743). |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1857-0520-309 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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