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Academy of the Lynx
academy, Italy
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place in development of biology
- In biology: The establishment of scientific societies
…Italian Accademia dei Lincei (Academy of the Lynx-eyed), founded in Rome around 1603. Galileo Galilei made a microscope for the society; another of its members, Johannes Faber, an entomologist, gave the instrument its name. Other academies in Europe included the French Academy of Sciences (founded in 1666), a German…
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