The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, is the oldest of the royal academies in Sweden, having been founded in 1710. The society has, by royal decree of 1906, 50 Swedish fellows and 100 foreign.
Detail of the building of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences in Uppsala.
Anders Celsius
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Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatori
Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
…having been founded in 1710. The society has, by royal decree of 1906, 50 Swedish fellows and 100 foreign. Early members included Emanuel Swedenborg and Anders Celsius. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in Stockholm 1739. Its founders, some of whom were members of the Uppsala academy, specifically…
Portrait by Olof Arenius
Anders Celsius c. 1730s
The observatory of Anders Celsius, from a contemporary engraving
De novo in fluviis norlandiarum piscandi modo, 1738