Natural Research Society in Zurich
The Natural Research Society in Zurich (NGZH) is a society founded in 1746 to promote the natural sciences. It was founded by Johannes Gessner and other citizens of Zurich as the Physical Society (Physical Society) and is one of the oldest scientific societies in Switzerland.
In the Age of Enlightenment, the then flourishing natural sciences were devoted there, i. H. In addition to physics, also mathematics, technology, agriculture, medicine, pharmacy and, in particular, natural history (which includes descriptive natural sciences such as zoology, botany, meteorology, geology, geography and astronomy). The society was subordinate to a botanical garden and an observatory but it also created collections and a library. She also kept records of the daily weather and was responsible for correct timekeeping in Zurich. Experiments were also carried out at their meetings, following the example of other scientific societies, such as the Royal Society . The natural science faculties of the University of Zurich, founded in 1833, and of the Federal Polytechnic, which opened in 1855 (called the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) from 1911 ) , also benefited from the numerous activities of the society .
Every year the society organizes a series of lectures and publishes shorter articles in the quarterly journal of the Natural Research Society in Zurich as well as a more extensive work as the New Year's paper of the Natural Research Society in Zurich , which appears on December 31st and is sold in the Zurich Central Library on the morning of January 2nd becomes.
In addition, treatises (1762, 1764, 1766) were published in the 18th century . The negotiations (1826 to 1837) and the communications (1847 to 1856) were also a forerunner of the quarterly journal . The New Year's Gazette has been published since 1799 and the quarterly magazine has been published since 1856.
The society is public and is also open to interested non-academics. It currently has around 530 members (as of January 2017).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the societies organized in the Academy of Natural Sciences
- ↑ Zurich Central Library
- ^ Report on the negotiations of the Natural Research Society , ZDB -ID 212341-1 .
- ↑ Communications from the Natural Research Society in Zurich , ZDB -ID 209713-8 .