Martin Folkes
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Martin Folkes was an English antiquary, numismatist, mathematician and astronomer who served as the president of the Royal Society from 1741 to 1752.
Portrait of Martin Folkes
Martin Folkes by Roubiliac, British Museum
Royal Society
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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Royal Society, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils
Martin Folkes
…Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, he so distinguished himself in mathematics that when only twenty-three years of age he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected one of the council in 1716, and in 1723 Sir Isaac Newton, president of the society, appointed him one of the vice-presidents. On the…
Entrance to the Royal Society at 6–9 Carlton House Terrace, London
John Evelyn, who helped to found the Royal Society
Mace granted by Charles II
Sir Isaac Newton FRS, President of Royal Society, 1703–1727. Newton was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society, elected in 1672.