• Art Exhibits - Summer Science Exhibition 2009

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    Art Exhibits

      

    Artist placement: Leah Newman

    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.

    Leah Newman 

    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.

    ='Synchrotron - Design by Janet Trotman, Made by Harpsden WI

    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. 

    darwin-photo 

    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.

    Penrose Tiling 

    The Royal Society Prizes for Science Books 2009

    Celebrating the best in popular science writing

     

    The longlist of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books 2009 
     

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