Search Results for "Hans Sloane"
Electoral reform
history of scienceVirginia Mills looks at the history of Fellowship elections to the Royal Society, including some recent procedural changes.
Diet of worms
history of scienceLayla Hilsden finds 'an astonishing and noteworthy story' while cataloguing the Royal Society's Classified Papers collection.
One in fifty
history of scienceProfessor Anita Guerrini looks at how some eighteenth-century parents decided to subject their children to the risk of smallpox inoculation in the belief that they were acting in their best interests, whether for reasons of dynasty or affection or both.
West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and the Royal Society
history of scienceDr Carolyn Roberts of Yale University, currently writing her first book 'To heal and to harm: medicine, knowledge, and power in the British slave trade', discusses some key documents in the Royal Society's archives.
Meeting Sloane
history of scienceLouisiane Ferlier proudly presents five newly-digitised volumes of the draft minutes of Royal Society meetings, taken for Hans Sloane between 1686 and 1711.
Psyche’s daughters
history of scienceKeith Moore admires the work of early women scientists and illustrators Maria Sibylla Merian and Maria Eleonora Hochecker.