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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:

 Chasing Venus: the race to measure the heavens | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:44:40

Public history of science lecture by Andrea Wulf.

 Sir George Cayley (1773-1857), the father of flight | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Public history of science lecture by Alan Morrison

 Hero or villain? Nevil Maskelyne's posthumous reputation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Public history of science lecture by Dr Rebekah Higgitt

 'How should a chemist understand brewing?' Beer and theory around 1800 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:42

Public history of science lecture by Dr James Sumner

 Dream to reality? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Public history of science lecture by Dr Susan Mossman

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

Public history of science lecture by Natasha McEnroe

 The first ornithologist: Francis Willughby | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:28:27

Public history of science lecture by Professor Tim Birkhead FRS

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

Public history of science lecture by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

 John Aubrey's 'Brief Lives' and the early Royal Society | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Dr Kate Bennett discusses John Aubrey's best-known work, 'Brief Lives'.

 Greater Glory: Science and the Race To The Pole 100 Years Later | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Speaker: Edward J. Larson

 Music, architecture and acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating lost soundscapes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:48:38

Professor Malcolm Longair FRS

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

Prof. Jim Secord, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge

 Alchemy and patronage in Tudor England | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:14:20

Dr Jenny Rampling, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge

 Niépce in England | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:28:19

Speaker: Philippa Wright, National Media Museum

 John Soane and the learned societies of Somerset House | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Speaker: Gillian Darley

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