Friday Lunchtime Lectures, Autumn 2011
Our autumn 2011 series of Friday lunchtime lectures in the history of science has now concluded, but the full programme for our spring 2012 series will be available here soon.
In the meantime, if you'd like to catch up with any of the lectures you missed (details listed below), please see our podcasts page, http://royalsociety.org/Podcasts-of-Library-events/. Recordings are also freely available via iTunes.
Friday 30 September, 1pm
John Aubrey’s ‘Brief Lives’ and the early Royal Society
Dr Kate Bennett, Christ Church, Oxford
Friday 7 October, 1pm
Alchemy and patronage in Tudor England
Dr Jenny Rampling, University of Cambridge
Friday 14 October, 1pm
Niépce in England
Philippa Wright, National Media Museum
Friday 21 October, 1pm
Music, architecture and acoustics in Renaissance Venice: Recreating lost soundscapes
Prof. Malcolm Longair FRS
Friday 28 October, 1pm
Mary Somerville and the empire of science in the nineteenth century
Prof. Jim Secord, University of Cambridge
Friday 4 November, 1pm
Science for all: popular science in the age of radio
Prof. Peter Bowler, Queen's University, Belfast
Friday 11 November, 1pm
Jonas Moore and his ‘Mapp of the Great Levell’
Dr Frances Willmoth, Jesus College, Cambridge
Friday 18 November, 1pm
Radiometers as buttonholes: the extraordinary material legacy of William Crookes
Dr Jane Wess, Science Museum
Friday 25 November, 1pm
Publishing Faraday’s Candle
Prof. Frank James, Royal Institution
Friday 2 December
The History of the Web part I: the First Twenty Years
Prof. Wendy Hall FRS
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