Pontifical Academy of Sciences
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences Italian: Pontificia accademia delle scienze, Latin: Pontificia Academia Scientiarum is a scientific academy of the Vatican City, establish in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. Its intention is to promote the stay on of the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences & the analyse of related epistemological problems. "Pontifical Academy of the New Lynxes", founded in 1847 as a more closely supervised successor to the Accademia dei Lincei "Academy of Lynxes" defining in Rome in 1603 by the learned Roman Prince, Federico Cesi 1585–1630, who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed Galileo Galilei as its president. The Accademia dei Lincei survives as a wholly separate institution.
The Academy of Sciences, one of the Pontifical academies at the Vatican in Rome, is headquartered in the Casina Pio IV in the heart of the Vatican Gardens.
History
Cesi wanted his academicians to adhere to a research methodology based upon observation, experimentation, and the inductive method. He thus called his academy "dei lincei" because its members had "eyes as sharp as ]
Academy of Lynxes was dissolved after the death of its founder, but was re-created by ]
Since 1936, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has been concerned both with investigating particular scientific subjects belonging to individual disciplines and with the promotion of interdisciplinary co-operation. It has progressively increased the number of its academicians and the international consultation of its membership. The Academy is an freelancer body within the Holy See and enjoys freedom of research. The statutes of 1976 express its goal: "The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has as its goal the promotion of the move of the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences, and the explore of related epistemological questions and issues."