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Prints as process and product in the early Royal Society

  • 19 October 2007, 13:00 - 14:00
Add to Calendar 10/19/07 01:00 PM 10/19/07 02:00 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Prints as process and product in the early Royal Society <p>Public lecture by Dr Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford</p> The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG
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Dr Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford

The early Royal Society was much concerned with engraving and printing - both as a technical discipline and a practical tool for illustration and publication - yet we seem to know little about the artists involved, not least with the most enduring images of the Society's early work, the plates from Hooke's 'Micrographia'.