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A song of Schiehallion

history of science
Virginia Mills
16 August 2022
6 mins

Virginia Mills discovers how Royal Society Fellows Nevil Maskelyne and Charles Hutton calculated the density of the Earth using a Scottish mountain, at the cost of a bothy and a prized fiddle.

Misogallus on the warpath

history of science
Rupert Baker
25 August 2015
5 mins

Why was Royal Society President Sir Joseph Banks on the receiving end of stinging criticism in 1802, and who was 'Misogallus'? Rupert Baker investigates.