Six discourses / delivered by Sir John Pringle, Bart. when president of the Royal Society, on occasion of six annual assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's medal. To which is prefixed The life of the author by Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. and S.A.

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Six discourses / delivered by Sir John Pringle, Bart. when president of the Royal Society, on occasion of six annual assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's medal. To which is prefixed The life of the author by Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. and S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    verfary meeting of the Royal Society, the determination of the Prefident a Council, to the perfon who had been t author of the beft Paper of Experiment Obfervations for the year paft. In proce of time, this pecuniary reward, whic could never be an important confideration to a man of an enlarged and philofophica mind, however narrow his circumftances might be, was changed into the more libe- ral form of a gold medal ; in which form it is become a truly honourable mark of diftinclion, and a juft and laudable object of ambition. It was, no doubt, always ufual with the Prefident, on the delivery of the Medal, to pay fome compliment to the gentleman on whom it was beftowed j but the cuitom of making a fet fpeech on the occafion, and of entering into the hiftory of that part of philofophy to which the experiments related, was hrft introduced by Mr. Martin Folkes. The Difcourfes, how- 2 ever,