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=== Members === Federico Cesi – founder Giovanni Demisiani – Greek theologian, chemist, mathematician, coined name "telescope" Anastasio de Filiis – polymath Johannes van Heeck – Dutch physician Giambattista della Porta – Italian scholar, polymath and playwright Adam Elsheimer – German artist Johann Faber – German physician and botanist, coined name "microscope" Galileo Galilei – Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Johann Schreck – German Jesuit, Missionary to China and polymath Francesco Stelluti – mathematician Nicola Antonio Stigliola – Italian philosopher, printer, architect, and medical doctor Luca Valerio – Italian mathematician Giovanni Ciampoli – poet, intellectual, Secretary of Briefs to Pope Gregory XV and chamberlain to Urban VIII Virginio Cesarini – poet, intellectual, and chamberlain to Popes Gregory XV and Urban VIII
== Accademia re-foundation == In 1801, Abbot Feliciano Scarpellini and Gioacchino Pessuti, with the patronage of Francesco Caetani, founded the Accademia Caetani which took the name of Accademia dei Lincei. The period from 1801 to 1840 has been termed the "Second Renaissance" of the Accademia. Conflicting goals and general shifts in the "geo-political scale" left the academy in a state of limbo, which ultimately led to its collapse in the 1840s. During the French domination of the Accademia, the institution saw a transition from a private association to a municipal institution. Despite efforts from the early 1800s onward, the Accademia underwent a true revival in 1847, when Pope Pius IX re-founded it as the Pontificia Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei, anglicised as the Pontifical Academy of New Lincei.
== Reale Accademia dei Lincei == In 1874, Quintino Sella turned it into the Accademia Nazionale Reale dei Lincei, anglicised as the Royal National Lincean Academy. This incarnation broadened its scope to include moral and humanistic sciences, and regained the high prestige associated with the original Lincean Academy. After the unification of Italy, the Piedmontese Quintino Sella infused new life into the Nuovi Lincei, reaffirming its ideals of secular science, but broadening its scope to include humanistic studies: history, philology, archaeology, philosophy, economics and law, in two classes of Soci (Fellows).
=== Members === Mario Ageno Giusto Bellavitis Ersilia Caetani Lovatelli – archaeologist – first female member Domenico Comparetti Benedetto Croce Albert Einstein Enrico Fermi Edward Augustus Freeman Giovanni Gentile William Ewart Gladstone Otto Hahn Werner Heisenberg Filippo Mariotti Theodor Mommsen Antonio Pacinotti Louis Pasteur Max Planck Olinto De Pretto George Rawlinson Augusto Righi Wilhelm Röntgen Manlio Simonetti Herbert Spencer Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Celal Şengör - Geologist - First and only Middle Eastern member
== Accademia d'Italia == see main article Royal Academy of Italy During the Italian fascist period, the Lincean Academy was effectively replaced by the new Accademia d'Italia, the Italian Academy, but was not fully absorbed by that institution until 1939. In 1949, after the fall of the fascist regime, at the suggestion of Benedetto Croce, the Lincean Academy recovered its independence. A brief history of this period of the Accademia, as well as the complete inventory of publications and documents produced in the same period, can be found in the book by Cagiano De Azevedo & Gerardi (2005).
== Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei == In 1986, the academy was placed under a statute that says it shall be composed of 540 members, of whom 180 are ordinary Italian members, 180 are foreigners, and 180 are Italian corresponding members. The members are divided into two classes: one for mathematical, physical, and natural sciences; the other for moral, historical, and philological sciences. In 2001, the natural sciences were re-divided into five categories: mathematics, mechanics and applications; astronomy, geodesy, geophysics and applications; physics, chemistry and applications; geology, paleontology, mineralogy and applications; and biological sciences and applications. At the same time, the moral sciences were divided into seven categories: philology and linguistics; archaeology; criticism of art and of poetry; history, historical geography, and anthropology; philosophical science; juridical science; social and political science.
== Prizes == The Accademia regularly awards prestigious prizes to talented researchers and scholars. Notable prizes include:
Premio Presidente della Repubblica Feltrinelli Prize Alfredo di Braccio Award for young Italian researchers in Physics and Chemistry Premio del Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali Premio Linceo Premio Internazionale Cataldo Agostinelli e Angela Gili Agostinelli
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== References == This article draws material from the corresponding article in the Italian Wikipedia, retrieved 09:12, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC) Cagiano De Azevedo, Paola; Gerardi, Elvira, eds. (2005). Reale Accademia d'Italia. Inventario dell'archivio (Inventory of the Archive) (PDF). Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato – Strumenti. Vol. CLXVII. Roma: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Dipartimento per i Beni Archivistici e Librari – Direzione Generale per gli Archivi. pp. lxxxiv+492. ISBN 88-7125-264-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 September 2012. (in Italian), freely available from the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Dipartimento per i Beni Archivistici e Librari – Direzione Generale per gli Archivi (a branch of the Italian Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali). The complete inventory of the Reale Accademia d'Italia, which incorporated the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei between 1939 and 1944. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (August 2004). "The Accademia dei Lincei". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. University of St Andrews. Van Helden, Albert (24 May 2004). "Accademia dei Lincei". Connexions. Rice University. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Walton, S.A., Theophrastus on Lyngurium: medieval and early modern lore from the classical lapidary tradition, 2001, Annals of Science, 2001 Oct;58(4):357-79, PDF on Academia.edu David Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. Sloane, Thomas O'Conor (1895) [1890]. Facts worth knowing: Selected mainly from the Scientific American for household, workshop, and farm. Hartford: S. C. Scranton and Co. OCLC 228795767.
== External links ==
Official website, with brief history (in Italian). Official website in English Notes on the Accademia dei Lincei from the Scholarly Societies Project "The Scientific Societies of Italy" . Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 42. November 1892. ISSN 0161-7370 – via Wikisource. The British Library's database of Italian Academies Archived 30 May 2023 at the Wayback Machine Historic article about the society, Scientific American, "The Oldest Scientific Society", 27 November 1880, p. 340