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Atmospheric exchange
history of scienceEarly Fellows of the Royal Society had many questions about the geology, topography and meteorology of Iceland, as Ainsley Vinall discovers.
Copycats
history of scienceCenturies before digital cameras, how did early Fellows of the Royal Society approach the tricky problem of reproducing text and images? Katherine Marshall investigates.
Earthquakes
history of scienceLouisiane Ferlier finds accounts of previous earthquakes in Syria and Turkey in the collections of the Royal Society Library.
Unnoticed Letters
publishingRobert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and the Royal Society
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.
The secret life of books
history of science91TV's Louisiane Ferlier examines the world of rare book collecting, and how important provenance can be when valuing works.
Jailbirds
history of scienceKeith Moore tells the stories of scientists who have fallen foul of the authorities, from Galileo and Samuel Pepys to Holloway Prison inmates Thomas Pelham Dale and Kathleen Lonsdale.