1. It achieved its Royal Charter in 1888, becoming the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.

1888 wurde der Gesellschaft die Royal Charter verliehen und sie durfte sich von nun an Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers nennen.

2. (Later, when glasses with a variety of refractive properties became available, achromatic lenses became possible. ) In 1671 the Royal Society asked for a demonstration of his reflecting telescope.

In der Theologie vertrat Newton eine antitrinitarische Ansicht.