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1. Danish Royal Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Danish_Academy/

   7 Mar 2023: The Royal Academy covered the subjects of mathematics, physics and natural history. ... In 1745 the Academy produced its first publication, and it has continued publishing uninterrupted since that time.

2. John Clark (1861 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clark_John/

   1 May 2023: At the University he gained medals in natural philosophy and English, and took honours in mathematics, moral philosophy, education, geology, and natural history. ... In 1889 he was appointed Mathematics and Physics Master at George Heriot's School,

3. ETH history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/ETH_history/

   7 Mar 2023: It was decided that a federal polytechnic would first and foremost produce engineers, chemists and foresters, but that supplementary subjects such as mathematics, natural sciences, modern languages, history, and politics would ... geometry; [knowledge]

4. Percy MacMahon addresses the British Association in 1901 - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1901_1/

   7 Mar 2023: An inspection of the documents establishes that it was mainly a society devoted to physics, chemistry and natural history. ... It had an extensive museum of curiosities and specimens of natural history, presented by individual members, which seems to

5. René de Sluze (1622 - 1685) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sluze/

   6 Jul 2023: De Sluze did not write exclusively on mathematics. He also wrote on astronomy, physics, natural history, history and theological matters connected with his work in the church. ... De Sluze left hundreds of pages of unpublished work, including a history

6. Paris Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Paris/

   7 Mar 2023: The three Physical Sciences of chemistry, botany and anatomy became four subjects: chemistry and metallurgy; mineralogy and natural history; botany and agriculture; and anatomy. ... Physical Sciences now consisted of: chemistry; natural history and

7. 1904 ICM - Heidelberg - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Heidelberg_1904/

   15 Dec 2023: V. Section: History of Mathematics. Introducers: Moritz Cantor (Heidelberg) and Paul Stäckel (Kiel). ... appropriate formulation of examination regulations, the consideration of the applications of mathematics to the problems of life, astronomy, geodesy

8. János Apáczai (1625 - 1659) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Apaczai/

   7 Mar 2023: K Szily, Apáczai's Encyclopaedia from the point of view of mathematics and physics (Hungarian), in Some data on the history of the Hungarian language and literature (Hungarian) (Budapest, 1898), ... 120. J Zemplén, The reception of Copernicanism in

9. Lisbon Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Lisbon_Academy/

   7 Mar 2023: The Academy extended its activity not only to the Natural Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, History and Linguistics, but also to the Applied Sciences, Economics, Agricultural and Industrial Developments, Public Health, Teaching, ... The second

10. Classical light - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Light_1/

    7 Mar 2023: J. Phys. 61 (2) (1993), 108-112. E I Pogrebysskaya, The development of the ideas about dispersion of light in the seventeenth century (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences, ... Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences