Reference number | EC/1787/34 |
Previous numbers | Cert V, 95 |
Level | Item |
Title | Zach, Franz Xaver: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Description | Certificate relates to unsuccessful second candidature |
Citation | Francis de Zach Major in the Service of his most Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Gotha & Altenbourg, Doctor of Laws in the University of Oxford, Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Brussels, & of other Academies, a Gentleman eminently distinguished for his profound knowledge in every branch of Mathematics, who has engaged in the publication of very valuable Manuscripts of that great Mathematician Thomas Hariot, having expressed an inclination to become a fellow of this Society on the foreign List, we whose Names are here underwritten , do from our personal acquaintance, declare him very worthy of that honour. |
Proposers | Alexr Aubert; J Smeaton; Wm Herschel; Thos Hornsby; W Musgrave; Will Roy; T Cavallo; Marlborough; Count de Bruhl; J A DeLuc; Jno Campbell; Henry C Englefield; C Blagden; J Ramsden |
Access status | Open |
Related material | EC/1786/04 |
EC/1803/11 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA7432 | Zach; Franz Xaver (1754 - 1832) | 1754 - 1832 |