Royal Society
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The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is arguably the oldest such society in existence.
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See also
- Academy of Medical Sciences
- Balnibarbi
- British Academy
- British Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- History of science
- Laputa, a fictional island full of absurd inventions put by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels to mock the Royal Society.
- Learned societies
- List of British professional bodies
- List of Fellows of the Royal Society
- List of Presidents of the Royal Society
- List of Royal Societies
- Royal Institution
- Royal Society of Arts
- The Royal Society Range, a mountain range in Antarctica named after the Society
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