Michael Hunter. The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660–1700: The Morphology of an Early Scientific Institution. (British Society for the History of Science Monographs, Volume 4.) Oxford: The Alden Press. 1994. Pp. ix, 291. n.p. ISBN 0-312-23909-2.

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-306
Author(s):  
Henry Steffens
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
Scientific Institution ◽  
History Of

Fine Fellows, most of them

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-164
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
Main Text ◽  
High Street ◽  
History Of

Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows 1660-1700 , 2nd. edition. British Society for the History of Science,* 1994. Pp. ix+291, £10 (ppbk). ISBN 0 906450 098. Michael Hunter’s well-known survey of the early Royal Society and its Fellows began life as a paper in Notes and Records in 1976. It was subsequently expanded into a book in the series of Monographs published by the British Society for the History of Science, appearing in 1982 with a reprint in 1985. It has now matured into a second edition, with numerous updatings and some revisions. The main text consists of 54 pages, with chapters on the Fellows, the Society’s composition, its changing fortunes and its nature. This is a book where the tail wags the text, which is followed by 68 pages of Appendices, listing proposers, officers, activity at meetings, Fellows expelled (usually for non-payment of dues), and so on. Then there are nine Tables with information such as elections per year and the occupations of the Fellows. * Address: 31 High Street, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 8LH

Essay Reviews: Hooke redivived

1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-261
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
Universal Gravitation ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
History Of

Robert Hooke: new studies . Edited by Michael Hunter & Simon Schaffer. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1989. Pp. x + 310, £39.50. ISBN 0-85115-523-5 These New studies of the life and work of Robert Hooke (1635-1703) include nine of the papers given at a conference on 19-21 July 1987 at the Royal Society, London, organized by the British Society for the History of Science. The editors introduce the selection with a survey of Hooke’s biographers, beginning with Richard Waller, a Secretary of the Royal Society under Newton’s presidency, who prefaced his edition of Hooke’s Posthumous works (1705) with a warm, but diplomatically-cautious, ‘Life of Dr Robert Hooke’. Over the following two centuries, little attention was paid to Hooke save as a just (or unjust) claimant for credit as a contributor to Newton’s theory of universal gravitation.

Conversazione to mark the quater-centenary of the birth of Galileo

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-119
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Society ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Astronomical Society ◽  
Royal Astronomical Society ◽  
Original Works ◽  
History Of

A conversazione was held on Thursday, 9 July to mark the quatercentenary of the birth of Galileo. On this occasion some 350 Fellows and their Ladies, representatives of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the BritishItalian Society, the British Society for the History of Science and the British National Committee for the History of Science attended. Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S., arranged an exhibit of books by and closely concerning Galileo. This included many original works by Galileo, modern translations into English and selected books containing references to Galileo from Professor Andrade’s own collections and from the libraries of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Society.

George Gabriel Stokes

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Public Servant ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Natural Philosophers

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most significant mathematicians and natural philosophers of the nineteenth century. Serving as Lucasian professor at Cambridge he made wide-ranging contributions to optics, fluid dynamics and mathematical analysis. As Secretary of the Royal Society he played a major role in the direction of British science acting as both a sounding board and a gatekeeper. Outside his own area he was a distinguished public servant and MP for Cambridge University. He was keenly interested in the relation between science and religion and wrote extensively on the matter. This edited collection of essays brings together experts in mathematics, physics and the history of science to cover the many facets of Stokes’s life in a scholarly but accessible way.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

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