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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
In 1757 Luigi Lagrange, Gianfrancesco Cigna and Angelo Saluzzo di Monesiglio constituted a "private society" for comparing the scientific researches they were performing and for spreading over the achieved on publications.
In 1783 the king Vittorio Amedeo III through Royal Letters Patent turned the private Society into the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, of which the best subalpine scientists were part.
Thanks to the Academy, scientists early created different contacts with the European scientific world.
The motto of the Academy of Sciences "Veritas et Utilitas" summarises the institute goals, whose target is the progress of knowledge, without ever forgetting the practical applications of the research, helpful to the whole society. The Academy will soon become the Turin "science location", at least for its whole century of life. Not only the Academy hosted important scientific debates, but promoted a deep activity of support in the Government, both at level of technological innovation (basically managing the patent department) and making bids of competition for the economic and social promotion of the Country.
Gianfrancesco Cigna, Luigi Lagrange, Giuseppe Angelo Saluzzo, founders of the Royal Academy of Sciences
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