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Wikipedia's article on the Royal Institution of Great Britain, covering its 1799 founding and its history of public science lectures.

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Institution
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community-edited tertiary reference, used here for the uncontested institutional founding facts, not a matter of interpretation.
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)

This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Institutions, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

11

Institutions

General References

1

Institutions

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