the british royal society celebrates spain

The British Royal Society Celebrates Spain’s Role in Science The world’s oldest scientific society pays tribute to Severo Ochoa, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Spain’s scientific heritage. Madrid, Spain, May 10, 2013 - The world’s oldest scientific society pays tribute to Severo Ochoa, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Spain’s scientific heritage. Severo Ochoa and Santiago Ramón y Cajal are some of the Spanish scientists who have been members of the Royal Society. Now, the exhibition "Transactions. Spain in the History of the Royal Society”, being held in collaboration with the Príncipe de Asturias Foundation, is paying tribute to and celebrating the relationship between British and Spanish scientists since the founding of the society in 1660. Books, notebooks, drawings, scientific instruments and models of telescopes and boats are some of the hundred or so items from various institutions being exhibited at the Royal Society. Some of the most impressive are from Ramón y Cajal, for example what is regarded as thefirst drawing of a neuron and a diary in which he noted down the symptoms that afflicted him until the day he died. There is also material relating to the work of Asturian Severo Ochoa, as well as the certificate he received when he joined the British scientific society in April 1965. Other earlier Spanish researchers such as Jorge Juan and Antonio Ulloa contributed their knowledge of navigation and shipbuilding to the arrival of modern science in the United Kingdom in the form of Newtonian physics, which substituted the Aristotelian principles that had still been in force in the 18th Century.

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The British Royal Society Celebrates Spain’s Role in Science

The world’s oldest scientific society pays tribute to Severo Ochoa, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Spain’s scientific heritage.

Madrid, Spain, May 10, 2013 - The world’s oldest scientific society pays tribute to Severo Ochoa, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Spain’s scientific heritage.

Severo Ochoa and Santiago Ramón y Cajal are some of the Spanish scientists who have been members of the Royal Society. Now, the exhibition "Transactions. Spain in the History of the Royal Society”, being held in collaboration with the Príncipe de Asturias Foundation, is paying tribute to and celebrating the relationship between British and Spanish scientists since the founding of the society in 1660.

Books, notebooks, drawings, scientific instruments and models of telescopes and boats are some of the hundred or so items from various institutions being exhibited at the Royal Society. Some of the most impressive are from Ramón y Cajal, for example what is regarded as thefirst drawing of a neuron and a diary in which he noted down the symptoms that afflicted him until the day he died. There is also material relating to the work of Asturian Severo Ochoa, as well as the certificate he received when he joined the British scientific society in April 1965.

Other earlier Spanish researchers such as Jorge Juan and Antonio Ulloa contributed their knowledge of navigation and shipbuilding to the arrival of modern science in the United Kingdom in the form of Newtonian physics, which substituted the Aristotelian principles that had still been in force in the 18th Century.

Spain was the focus of interest of foreign scientists in this period thanks to its flora, fauna and the manufacturing of certain products such as steel. It was also famous for the Teide, which was regarded as the highest accessible mountain peak, and the place where Italian astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth wanted to set up a telescope in 1858.

The members of the Royal Society were also particularly interested in Spain’s colonial territories in South America, a new world of natural history, mineral and material resources, which were of great scientific interest.