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A song of Schiehallion
history of scienceVirginia 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.
Black holes: who didn’t see them first?
history of scienceFollowing the news that the first image of a black hole has been captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, Ginny Mills looks back to a 1783 paper in our archives which proposes their existence.
Newton’s apple tree
history of scienceRead more about the discovery of a drawing of the legendary Newtonian apple tree found in the Royal Society's collections.