id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9082 Royal Society - Wikipedia .html text/html 9433 1377 67 The number of fellows had increased from 110 to approximately 300 by 1739, the reputation of the society had increased under the presidency of Sir Isaac Newton from 1703 until his death in 1727,[22] and editions of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were appearing regularly.[23] During his time as president, Newton arguably abused his authority; in a dispute between himself and Gottfried Leibniz over the invention of infinitesimal calculus, he used his position to appoint an "impartial" committee to decide it, eventually publishing a report written by himself in the committee's name.[22] In 1705, the society was informed that it could no longer rent Gresham College and began a search for new premises. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9082.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9082.txt