学会是一个推广一个学科、专业或数个相关学科（如艺术类）的组织[1]。学会可能开放给所有人成为会员，要求会员具有特定的资格，或透过选举授予荣誉的会员。[2]
一些最古老的学会
- Académie des Jeux floraux（1323）[3]
- Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana（1488）
- Accademia della Crusca（1583）[4]
- Accademia dei Lincei（1603）[5]
- Académie Française（1635）[6]
- Academy of Sciences Leopoldina（1652）[7]
- Royal Society of London（1660）
- Académie des sciences（1666）
参考来源
- ↑ The Environmental Studies Association of Canada - What is a Learned Society?. [10 May 2013].
- ↑ Learned societies & academies. [10 May 2013].
- ↑ Express, 1&1 TopSite. Accueil/Actualité - Académie des Jeux floraux. jeuxfloraux.fr. [8 May 2018].
- ↑ The reopening of the Accademia (1811) and the fifth edition of the Vocabolario (1863-1923) | Accademia della Crusca. 2015-03-01 [2021-06-08].
- ↑ The Galileo Project | Galileo | Federico Cesi and the Accademia dei Lincei. 2018-07-14 [2021-06-08].
- ↑ L'histoire | Académie française. www.academie-francaise.fr. [2021-06-08].
- ↑ Jedlitschka, Karsten. The Archive of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (Saale): more than 350 years of the history of science. Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 2008-06-20, 62 (2): 237–244. S2CID 73386192. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2007.0009.