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Why I don't FRS my Tail: Augustus DE Morgan and the Royal Society

Published:2006-09-08 Issue:3 Volume:60 Page:253-259
ISSN:0035-9149
Container-title:Notes and Records of the Royal Society
language:en
Short-container-title:Notes Rec. R. Soc.

Author:

Higgitt Rebekah¹

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Geography, University of EdinburghDrummond Street, Edinburgh EH8 9XP, UK

Abstract

The mathematician Augustus De Morgan chose not to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. This short article examines the reasons behind this choice and a sketch that he drew representing a satirical ‘Coat of Arms’ for the Society. Despite recent reform, De Morgan felt that the Society still represented aristocratic privilege rather than scientific attainment. In addition, his research into the history of the Society revealed past unfairness done in its name, for which it was yet to atone. De Morgan, who opposed and hoped to expose the presence of vested interests in the realm of science, was never to be convinced that the Royal Society represented and facilitated independent scientific endeavour.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsnr.2006.0150

Reference17 articles.

1. Morgan De op. cit. (note 1) 172.

2. De Morgan Augustus & Smyth W. H. 26 June 1848 De Morgan Papers MS913/A/2/5 University of London Library.

3. Anon An History of the Instances of Exclusion from the Royal Society… with Strictures on the Formation of the Council and Other Instances of the Despotism of Sir J. Banks Debrett London 1784 17 On this earlier threat to secede from the Royal Society see J. L Heilbron ‘A mathematician's mutiny with morals’ in World changes: Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science (ed. Paul Horwich) pp. 81–129 MIT Press Cambridge MA (1993).

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