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Book dust

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
23 January 2025
5 mins

Louisiane Ferlier looks at the three books donated to the Royal Society Library by mathematician Augustus De Morgan, all with intriguing inscriptions and insertions.

Haunting the shelves

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
05 September 2022
4 mins

How did the designer of a theatrical device to project ‘ghosts’ on the Victorian stage come to donate a significant collection of books to the Royal Society Library? Louisiane Ferlier investigates...

Lost and found

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
12 January 2021
5 mins

From Galileo to Robert Hooke and Charles Darwin, Louisiane Ferlier casts a critical eye on media stories of treasures 'disappearing' from, and being 'rediscovered' in, archives and libraries.

The secret life of books

history of science
Louisiane Ferlier
30 March 2020
6 mins

91TV's Louisiane Ferlier examines the world of rare book collecting, and how important provenance can be when valuing works.

Our unusual ‘Chymist’

history of science
Rupert Baker
17 January 2013
5 mins

Rupert Baker responds to a census on Robert Boyle's 1661 book 'The Sceptical Chymist', and discovers some interesting facts about the copy in the Royal Society Library.