Royal Society Of London

home of Natural Philosophy, started in London

Founded on 28 November 1660, it was granted a royal charter by King Charles II as The Royal Society and is the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world... The Invisible College has been described as a precursor group to the Royal Society of London, consisting of a number of natural philosophers around Robert Boyle. The concept of "invisible college" is mentioned in German Rosicrucian pamphlets in the early 17th century. Ben Jonson in England referenced the idea, related in meaning to Francis Bacon's House of Solomon, in a masque The Fortunate Isles and Their Union from 1624/5.[4] The term accrued currency in the exchanges of correspondence within the Republic of Letters.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society

motto Nullius In Verba meaning On the words of no one - a true Enlightenment mentality