Abstract
The name of Sir Godfrey Copley is closely associated with the Royal Society because in his will dated 14 October 1704, and proved in the Prerogative Court on 11 April 1709, he bequeathed one hundred pounds in trust to the Society Tor improving natural knowledge, to be laid out in experiments, or otherwise, for the benefit thereof, as they shall direct and appoint’. The interest was given to J. T. Desaguliers, Curator of the Society, for various experiments made before the Society, and not until 1736 did the Council decide to convert the value of the legacy into a medal which was to be awarded ‘to the author of the most important scientific discovery, or contribution to science, by experiment or otherwise’.
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History and Philosophy of Science
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