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3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Robert Boyle and experiments on colours. Experiments and considerations touching colours,. by The Honourable Robert Boyle. London : Printed for Henry Herringman…, 1670.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Acknowledgements. I would like to thank the following people for their assistance in the creation of this exhibition:. Jack Dixon. James Livesey. Francesco Mannu. James

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sobotta's Atlas and Cunningham's Manual. Atlas of human anatomy. Vol.3, The nervous and blood vascular systems and the sense organs of the human body ; with an appendix

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. World Pieces: America’s ‘Portrait’ and the Environmental View of Landsat. Amelia Urry. Supervisor: Richard Staley. I began my research curious about how the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. References. Meyer, L. (1870). Die Natur der chemischen Elemente als Function ihrer Atomgewichte. In F. Wöhler, J. Liebig, & H. Kopp (Eds.), Annalen der Chemie und

3 Jul 2024: They projected an idealised vision of children and adults brought together in a common pursuit of science. ... Newton, through Tom, was upheld as a model for children to follow.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Traité élémentaire d'ornithologie. Marie Jacques Philippe Mouton-Fontenille (1769-1837) is mostly known for promoting and translating the works of Linnaeus. His

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Microscopic illustrations. Microscopic illustrations of a few new, popular, and diverting living objects ; with their natural history, &c. &c. ; conjoined with accurate

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, Description geologique des environs de Paris. Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart,. Description geologique des environs de

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Meyer's First Table of Elements. This image shows Meyer's first table of elements. . 1. The anti-error ethos of Neumann's seminar is visible from this table and Meyer’s

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Microscopy books by Mary Ward. Mary Ward (1827-1869) took a keen interest in natural history and astronomy from childhood. Her enthusiasm led to serious study and she

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Quest for “Perfect Truth”: Embodiment, Objectivity, and Cornelius Varley’s Graphic Telescope. Xinyi Wen. Supervisor: Boris Jardine. This MPhil essay began with

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Colour measurement and mixture. Colour measurement and mixture, by Captain W. de W. Abney. London, Brighton, New York : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1891.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Geology and Egyptian Antiquity. Geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) shared the common belief that Egypt contained some of the earliest material evidence for human

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Julius Lothar Meyer. Meyer was born in Varel, Oldenburg. After gaining an M.D. in 1854, he became interested in the gas analysis work of Robert Bunsen. Meyer joined

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Britain in Egypt. Egypt held particular interest for Victorians as a strategic gateway to the Orient. The first Arabic-speaking country to experience overlapping colonial

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Newton for ladies. Newton for ladies. Francesco Algarotti's Il Newtonianismo per le dame is written as a conversation between the narrator and an anonymous Marchioness.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Scrope and von Leonhard, Volcanoes. George Poulett Scrope,. Considerations on volcanos. 1825. Donated by Martin Rudwick. STORE 222:22. George Poulett Scrope (1797-1876)

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Microscopy and Mordecai Cubitt Cooke. One thousand objects for the microscope : with a few hints on mounting, by M.C. Cooke. London ; New York : Frederick Warne and Co.,

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Objects for the microscope. Objects for the microscope : being a popular description of the most instructive and beautiful subjects for exhibition,. by L. Lane Clarke.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Geochronology. The first geochronology of ancient Egypt. At an 1847 meeting of the Geological Society of London, president Leonard Horner (1785-1864) told members to

3 Jul 2024: Children and foremen from the village of Quft (known as Quftis) excavated 2,200 graves.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Indigenous, authentic, obsolete? ‘Universal’ equinoctial sundials in late 19th century India. Francis Newman. Supervisor: Simon Schaffer. From MPhil seminars and

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Theoretical Perspectives. Mendeleev vigorously opposed Meyer's method for representing periodicity with a graphic curve. He argued that graphs implied that there were no

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Learning that Incomparable Art in The Most Famous & Ancient Metropolis. Zhiyu Chen, MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine student (2022-23), outlines

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Joseph Lovibond and the Tintometer. In the 1870s, the brewer Joseph Williams Lovibond (1833-1918) began to look for a way to measure the quality and consistency of the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Half-hours with the microscope. Half-hours with the microscope ; being a popular guide to the use of the microscope as a means of amusement and instruction, by Edwin

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Gregor Reisch and Robert Fludd. Gregor Reisch (d. 1525) and Robert Fludd (1574–1637). This popular early 16th-century encyclopaedia by Gregor Reisch exemplifies the way

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 200 years of Scientific Publishing at the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Advanced Research Fellow Dr Edwin Rose examines 200 years of Scientific Publishing at the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Martianus Capella and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Martianus Capella (ca. 5th cent. AD) and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (ca. 80–70 BC–ca. 15 BC). Born near Carthage in North

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Newton for all. Newton for all. Newton was a heroic figure in his own lifetime, and the personality cult that grew up around him intensified after his death. This

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Magic Lantern in Europe: From the Camera Obscura to the Earliest form of Cinema. Our Library Assistant Raphaëlle has been working on a short exhibition around the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton (1642–1727). Newton discussed music in a number of different contexts. Although not a lover of practical music he was interested in music's

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Prohibition of Science: Banned Books and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. Raphaëlle Goyeau, former library assistant (2021-2022) presents a selection of books that were

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A Bird's Eye View: Highlights from the History of British Ornithology in the Whipple Collection. A new display in the Whipple Library, created by Andrew Lorey. This

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. John Theophilus Desaguliers: popularising Newton. John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683–1744): popularising Newton. John Theophilus Desaguliers, Huguenot émigré, priest,

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Beets, Beets, Beets: Cambridge and the Rise of British Sugar Beet. Mark Chih-Wei Liang (MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society, 2021-22) presents the story of British

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Newton and the scientific establishment. Newton and the scientific establishment. In British institutions such as the Royal Society of London, representations of Isaac

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott. Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) and Gaspar Schott (1608–60). Music and notions of universal harmony play a prominent part in the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Francis Bacon and the Royal Society. Francis Bacon (1561–1626) and the Royal Society. Whilst ancient Greek music theory would continue to interest scientists and music

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Egyptian Prehistory, Philology and the Bible. After the successful decipherment of hieroglyphs in 1822, the second half of the century saw new tensions between scriptural,

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Graphical Representations. While Meyer published several tabular representations of periodicity, his most well-known system is a graph showing the relationship between

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Whipple Library. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Early 19th-century natural history and the diamond lens microscope. Microscope books of Dr C.R. Goring (1792–1840) and Andrew Pritchard (1804–1882). Amongst the