Search Results for "James Petiver"
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.
Remembering James Petiver
publishing"Petiver has tended to be overlooked by historians of science, even though there is a wealth of fabulous archival material"