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Search Results for "Joseph Priestley"

Worthy of public attention

history of science
Virginia Mills
04 July 2025
7 mins

Two eighteenth-century women, Elizabeth Fulhame and Mary Senex, had contrasting interactions with ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ, as Virginia Mills discovers.

Brains in a ferment

history of science
Rupert Baker
12 June 2023
5 mins

Rupert Baker finds tales of beer and brewing in the archives of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ, along with a poisoned dagger and some tricky handwriting.

Degrees Wedgwood

history of science
Ellen Embleton
27 March 2023
4 mins

Ellen Embleton looks at the ‘thermometer for higher degrees of heat’ developed in the early 1780s by potter and Fellow of ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Josiah Wedgwood.

Depicting data

history of science
Ellen Embleton
16 August 2021
5 mins

Ellen Embleton looks into the history of data visualisation, and highlights the work of Joseph Priestley, Luke Howard and Florence Nightingale.

Scrapbooking

history of science
Ellen Embleton
25 February 2020
5 mins

A look inside the Priestley Papers, a hefty 'scrapbook' given to ºìÌÒÊÓÆµ Library by collector James Yates FRS.