Draft:Intellectual societies

Intellectual societies have played a great role in the advancement of science and literature, among other human intellectual activities. Usually these societies or clubs have started around some luminary, for example: Socrates leading to Plato's Academy and more recently Benjamin Franklin started Leather Apron Club. Usually a close group of friends were meeting regularly to discuss a topic or a book. Some of these early club later became prominent societies like the Royal Society and American Philosophical Society that were offshoots of the Invisible College and the club of Benjamin Franklin retrospectively.