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It is clear from the passage that, as in the case of "the problem of longitude", the Royal Society .
The Royal Society is the national academy of science for
Great Britain and Northern Ireland but, unlike other
national academies, is and always has been independent
of state control; it is not maintained by grants from public
funds and manages its own affairs. Since its foundation,
however, kings, statesmen and government departments
have regularly sought its advice on scientific matters; it
has never hesitated to assist governments when
convinced that the national interest called for scientific
action. Within ten years of its foundation the society, at
the invitation of Charles II and his ministers, grappled
with problems of national food supply, arboriculture,
naval architecture and navigation. Throughout the 18th
century it worked with the admiralty on what was then
called “the problem of the longitude” in the solution of
which are associated the names of the astronomers
Edmond Halley and Nevil Maskelyne, the chronometer
maker John Harrison and the navigator James Cook. It
found a cure for jail-fever and advised on the protection
of ships of war against lightning; it organized a geodetic
survey of the British Isles and appointed scientific
personnel to several Arctic and Antarctic expedition.