The Academie des Sciences is the French academy of sciences, founded in Paris in 1666 at the urging of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, to bring the kingdom's leading natural philosophers together under royal patronage. It met privately at first and was reorganised with formal statutes in 1699. Alongside the Royal Society in London, it was one of the two institutions that gave the scientific societies of the seventeenth century their lasting, organised form, publishing findings, corresponding across national lines, and judging priority disputes between rival claimants. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account Founded DateSourced to the subject's own account FounderSourced to the subject's own accountColbert, Louis XIV's minister of finance, proposed and organised the Academie's founding rather than being a practicing scientist himself; the working members he assembled did the science. SeatSourced to the subject's own account Connections
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Huygens moved to Paris in 1666, the year of the Academie des Sciences founding, to take a leadership position there.
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founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.
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He chose a small group of scholars who met on 22 December 1666 in the King's library, near the present-day Bibliotheque Nationale.
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is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research
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Infobox workplaces: Royal Society of London; French Academy of Sciences
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He was elected to the Académie des Sciences in 1887
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he was elected an adjoint in the Académie des Sciences
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the Académie des Sciences in Paris (1900)
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Infobox workplaces: French Academy of Sciences; Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Jardin des Plantes
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