Search Results for "Henry Oldenburg"
The two doctors
history of scienceVirginia Mills finds ‘a beautiful and unbroken marriage of souls’ between two seventeenth-century Fellows of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ.
Atmospheric exchange
history of scienceEarly Fellows of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ had many questions about the geology, topography and meteorology of Iceland, as Ainsley Vinall discovers.
Copycats
history of scienceCenturies before digital cameras, how did early Fellows of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ approach the tricky problem of reproducing text and images? Katherine Marshall investigates.
Earthquakes
history of scienceLouisiane Ferlier finds accounts of previous earthquakes in Syria and Turkey in the collections of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Library.
Unnoticed Letters
publishingRobert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ
history of scienceDr Carolyn Roberts of Yale University, currently writing her first book 'To heal and to harm: medicine, knowledge, and power in the British slave trade', discusses some key documents in ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ's archives.
The secret life of books
history of scienceºìÌÒÊÓÆµ's Louisiane Ferlier examines the world of rare book collecting, and how important provenance can be when valuing works.
Jailbirds
history of scienceKeith 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.