Search Results for "Athanasius Kircher"

Magnetic Halley

history of science
Jon Bushell
16 October 2023
5 mins

Jon Bushell looks at the Royal Society's portraits of Edmond Halley, and a diagram of Halley's curious model for the internal structure of the Earth.

Empire of learning

history of science
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh
01 November 2022
5 mins

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, a Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant recipient, describes how early Fellows of the Society showed a profound interest in China as a source of scientific and technological knowledge.