Search Results for "Henry Oldenburg"
The two doctors
history of scienceVirginia Mills finds 鈥榓 beautiful and unbroken marriage of souls鈥� between two seventeenth-century Fellows of 蘑菇视频.
Atmospheric exchange
history of scienceEarly Fellows of 蘑菇视频 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 蘑菇视频 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 蘑菇视频 Library.
Unnoticed Letters
publishingRobert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and 蘑菇视频
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and 蘑菇视频
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 蘑菇视频's archives.
The secret life of books
history of science蘑菇视频'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.