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The Academy of Sciences of Turin is an academy of sciences based in the Italian city of Turin.
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History
The Academy originated in 1757 as a private academic society, which was recognized by King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia in 1783 and was permitted to use the name Reale Accademia delle Scienze (Royal Academy of Sciences). After the unification of Italy under Piedmontese leadership and the reestablishment of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome as the Italian National Academy of Sciences, the Turin academy lost its former, important role as an advisory body to the government.[1]
The academy was originally mathematical and scientific in nature. During the Napoleonic period, it was organized into a section of natural sciences and another of art and literature, and was renamed Accademia Imperiale (Imperial Academy). Currently (as of 2020), the natural sciences section has 170 members from Italy and abroad, of whom 120 are corresponding members, while the humanities section has 130 members, of whom 80 are corresponding members.[2] The Italian members of the two sections meet periodically as the administrative body of the Academy. Its board of directors consists of a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, and the directors and secretaries of the two sections.[3]
Since 1787, the Academy has been located at Via dell'Accademia delle Scienze, No. 6, in a building that also houses the Egyptian Museum of Turin. Before that, the Collegio dei Nobili, run by the Jesuits, was located there.[4]
List of presidents
The following list shows the honorary and perpetual presidents, ordered by date of appointment.
Honorary presidents
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, July 25, 1783
- Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, February 25, 1804
Perpetual presidents
- Angelo Saluzzo di Monesiglio, July 25, 1783
- Carlo Lodovico Morozzo, November 30, 1788
- Angelo Saluzzo di Monesiglio, January 24, 1801
- Prospero Balbo, November 25, 1815
- Agostino Lascaris di Ventimiglia, November 26, 1837
- Alessandro Saluzzo di Monesiglio, November 18, 1838
- Giovanni Plana, December 18, 1851
- Federico Sclopis, May 1, 1864