Note 117 — Chapter XII · Globes and Globe Makers of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century—from Delisle to Ferguson
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This society was founded in the year 1666 by Louis XIV, after the model of the Royal Society of London. It was liberally endowed and supported, its members devoting themselves to the science of physics, mathematics, astronomy, botany, zoology, and medicine. The observatory, founded in the year 1667, was an adjunct of the society.