Author: Royal Astronomical Society

Royal Astronomical Society

Date of birth: 10 March 1820
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The 'Astronomical Society of London' was conceived on 12 January 1820 when 14 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. After an unusually short gestation the new Society was born on 10 March 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society as a whole. - http://www.ras.org.uk/about-the-ras/a-brief-history


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