A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession or group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences, and may also be called a scholarly, intellectual or academic society. Membership may be open to all, may require a qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Learned societies frequently founded and curated museums as a means of preserving and displaying the specimens and objects their scholarship produced.
Public libraries and learned societies developed together in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as parallel institutions for the free circulation of knowledge, and many public libraries began as the private collections of learned societies.
Think tanks and learned societies are both institutions organized around producing and disseminating specialist knowledge outside the university, though the think tank orients toward policy and the learned society toward scholarship.
Learned societies and universities are both institutions organized around the production and validation of scholarly knowledge, historically overlapping in membership though distinct in structure.
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A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences.
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Some of the oldest learned societies are the Académie des Jeux floraux (founded 1323), Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana (founded 1488), Accademia della Crusca (founded 1583), Accademia dei Lincei (founded 1603), Académie Française (founded 1635), German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (founded 1652), Royal Society (founded 1660) and French Academy of Sciences (founded 1666).
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A learned society ( LUR-nid) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences.
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