History of science lectures show

History of science lectures

Summary: Listen to history of science lectures and discussions at the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.

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Podcasts:

 Dream to reality? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:30:24
 'Against images made by hands': Florence Nightingale's reluctant life in portraiture | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:41

'Against images made by hands': Florence Nightingale's reluctant life in portraiture

 Shakespeare the metallurgist, Eliot the spectroscopist: the cultural journey of the chemical elements | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:42:40

Shakespeare the metallurgist, Eliot the spectroscopist: the cultural journey of the chemical elements

 Roger Boscovich, the eighteenth-century polymath | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:55:42

Roger Boscovich, the eighteenth-century polymath

 Mary Somerville and the Empire of Science in the Nineteenth Century | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:46:44

Mary Somerville and the Empire of Science in the Nineteenth Century

 'We are arriving at very curious results': Charles Darwin and the practice of science | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:36

'We are arriving at very curious results': Charles Darwin and the practice of science

 Science in the news: regional independent television in the British Midlands during the 1950s and 1960s | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:11:49

Science in the news: regional independent television in the British Midlands during the 1950s and 1960s

 Teaching language to the deaf in the 17th century: the dispute between John Wallis and William Holder | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 03:53:47

Teaching language to the deaf in the 17th century: the dispute between John Wallis and William Holder

 Wellcome's collectors | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:13:50
 Spooks and spoofs: psychologists and psychical research in the inter-war years | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:10

Spooks and spoofs: psychologists and psychical research in the inter-war years

 Natural History and the Rights of Woman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:55:30

Natural History and the Rights of Woman

 The Centenary of the Discovery of Cosmic Rays: the End of the Beginning | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:03

The Centenary of the Discovery of Cosmic Rays: the End of the Beginning

 The image of Restoration science: the frontispiece of Sprat’s 'History of the Royal Society' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:46

Public history of science lecture by Professor Michael Hunter

 The medieval science of light: uncovering meaning with an interdisciplinary methodology | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:14

Public history of science lecture by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Dr Giles Gasper and Dr Hannah Smithson

 The star-crossed stone | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:51:12

The star-crossed stone

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