The Cambridge Philosophical Society is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval use of the word philosophy to denote any research
The Cambridge Philosophical Society Wax Seal, 1832.
Stephen Hawking was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1970 until his death in 2018.
The Society’s bicentenary blue plaque on 2 All Saints Passage, Cambridge.
Coloured plate from R.T. Lowe 'On the Fishes of Madeira' from Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Volume 6, 1838.
John Stevens Henslow
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John Stevens Henslow was an English Anglican priest, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to Charles Darwin.
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…Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society was published between 1821–1928, but was then discontinued. The society was founded in 1819 by John Stevens Henslow, Adam Sedgwick and Edward Clarke, is Cambridge's oldest scientific society. Its prime purpose is to "keep alive the spirit of inquiry". For over 200…
Henslow c. 1851