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Authorised form of nameBoscovich; Roger Joseph (1711 - 1787)
Dates1711 - 1787
Date of birth18 May 1711
Date of death13 February 1787
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/01/1761
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
References:
L L Whyte, 'R.J. Boscovich, SJ, FRS (1711-1787), and the Mathematics of Atomism' in NR 1958 vol 13 pp 38-48, plate
J S Rowlinson, 'Le Sage's Essai de chymie mechanique' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 35-45
CodeNA2430
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1760/16Boscovich, Roger Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/5/79Paper, 'Account of Roger Joseph Boscovich's dissertationes quinque as dioptricam pertinentes' by John Bevis1769
L&P/4/24Paper, 'Of the approaching transit of Venus' by Roger Joseph Boscovich1760
L&P/7/65Paper, 'The prismative objective micrometer' by Roger Boscovich1778
L&P/6/258Paper, 'Of a new micrometer and megameter' by Roger Joseph Boscovich1777
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