Art Exhibits - Summer Science Exhibition 2009

During the Summer Science Exhibition, the Royal Society Library is hosting an artist. Inspired by the vast numbers of drawings, diagrams and illustrations scattered throughout our print and manuscript collections, Leah Newman will be creating original artwork recording the exhibits, exhibitors and visitors throughout the week.

Designs for Life

Designs for Life is an innovative fusion of science and art resulting from a collaboration between The Oxford Trust, Diamond Light Source and the Oxfordshire Federation of the Women’s Institute (WI). The project has been funded by the Wellcome Trust.

From fossils to photography: Victorian science

In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, his groundbreaking work on evolution by natural selection. The idea has been controversial ever since, but it changed the way we see the world. 

How do shapes fill space?

Researchers from five institutions are studying how space can be filled with shapes and what this can tell about the natural world and medieval art.

The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2009

Celebrating the best in popular science writing