This day in #history January 11, 1672 – The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, the national science academy for England, elected Isaac #Newton to its membership, and demonstrated Newton's reflecting telescope to King Charles II.
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https://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/multiwavelength-astronomy/optical/history/04.html