Martin Folkes

Martin Folkes ( born October 29, 1690 in London, † June 28, 1754 ) was an English mathematician and numismatist, and 1741-1753 President of the Royal Society.

Life

Folkes studied at Saumur University and Clare College, University of Cambridge mathematics and was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society at the age of 23 years. In 1716, he was elected in 1723 and appointed by Isaac Newton as one of the Vice-President. After the death of Newton, he was also one of the candidates for the presidency, but was initially struck by Hans Sloane, however, whom he succeeded from 1741 to 1753 as President of the Royal Society in office. In 1745 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. 1746 awarded by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge awarded an honorary doctorate and became a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

In 1733 he traveled to Italy and wrote during which his work dissertation on the weights and values ​​of Ancient Coins (German: treatise on weights and values ​​of coins of antiquity ). Before the Society of Antiquaries, whose chairman he was later 1749 to 1754, he carried out his work in 1736 Observations on the Trojan and Antonine Pillars at Rome ( Eng.: Trojan investigation and Antoni shear columns in Rome) and Table of English Gold Coins from the 18th year of King Edward III: before (Eng. table of English gold coins from the 18th year of reign Edward III. ). This last work he published in 1745 together with a work on silver coins. Both works were later into the possession of the Society of Antiquaries, works on Roman antiquities, he left the Royal Society. 1739 he was a co-founder and Vice President of the London Foundling Hospital for abandoned children, an office he perceived to 1747.

To Sir John Hill's attack on Folkes ( Review of the Works of the Royal Soc., 1751 ), see also D' Israeli, Calamities and Quarrels of Authors (1860 ), pp. 364-366.

Works

  • Martin Folkes; John Ward; Andrew Gifford; Society of Antiquaries of London: Tables of English silver and gold coins ( First published by Martin Folkes, Esq; and now re -printed, with plates and Explanations, by the Society of Antiquaries ). London 1763

Swell

  • Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 10, p 600; online by archive.org
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