| RefNo | EC/1773/21 |
| Previous numbers | Cert III, 162 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Luc, Jean Andre De: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 1772 |
| Description | Second of two certificates relating to this Fellow's election. At head of certificate: 'Geneva, November the 3rd 1772' |
| Citation | Mr John Andrew de Luc Member of the Council of Two Hundred in the City of Geneva, correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris and of the Royal Society at Montepellier being desirous of becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society;
We certify that considering his uncommon Knowledge in natural and experimental Philosophy, of which he has given several evident Proofs, more particularly by the Publication of his important Discoveries on the Nature of the Atmosphere and its Variations, on the Causes and Laws of its various Pressures at different Heights, on the Correction of the mean Refractions which is performed by estimating the Variations in the State of the Air and on the Application of his Principles to the Measuring of Heights, as well as to other useful Purposes, the whole of which he has determined by a Series of laborious and accurate Experiments; We are fully persuaded by these among other Reasons that he will prove a singularly useful Member of the Society |
| Proposers | Stanhope; Charles L'Espinasse; Abraham Trembly; Charles Bonnet; Daines Barrington; M Maty; John Pringle; Dan Solander; Nevil Maskelyne; Samuel Horsley; William Hunter, C F Greville |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | EC/1773/20 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8254 | Luc; Jean Andre De (1727 - 1817) | 1727 - 1817 |