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The two doctors

history of science
Virginia Mills
30 June 2026
6 mins

Virginia Mills finds ‘a beautiful and unbroken marriage of souls’ between two seventeenth-century Fellows of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ.

Atmospheric exchange

history of science
Ainsley Vinall
31 July 2025
5 mins

Early Fellows of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ had many questions about the geology, topography and meteorology of Iceland, as Ainsley Vinall discovers.

Copycats

history of science
Katherine Marshall
21 May 2024
5 mins

Centuries before digital cameras, how did early Fellows of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ approach the tricky problem of reproducing text and images? Katherine Marshall investigates.

Earthquakes

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
28 February 2023
4 mins

Louisiane Ferlier finds accounts of previous earthquakes in Syria and Turkey in the collections of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Library.

Anna Marie Roos
20 February 2023
5 mins

Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ

The secret life of books

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
30 March 2020
6 mins

ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ's Louisiane Ferlier examines the world of rare book collecting, and how important provenance can be when valuing works.

Jailbirds

history of science
Keith Moore
22 January 2019
4 mins

Keith Moore tells the stories of scientists who have fallen foul of the authorities, from Galileo and Samuel Pepys to Holloway Prison inmates Thomas Pelham Dale and Kathleen Lonsdale.