MBC Event for 26 May 2009
The Royal Society of London and its Library, 1660–2010.
I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday 26 May at 5.30pm Dr. Felicity Henderson will present, in the McArthur Gallery (Rare Books), off the Redmond Barry Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, a paper on the Royal Society Library, giving an overview of the Royal Society Library and Archive collections and discussing the importance of these collections in the early days of the Society.
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 “for the pursuit of natural knowledge.” The early fellows collected knowledge wherever they could find it—through experiment and personal observation; through conversation with sailors, tradesmen and merchants; and through printed and manuscript texts. They soon began a collection of books and archives which has continued to the present day and is now an unparalleled resource for historians of science. It gives a fascinating insight into the social and intellectual worlds of three and a half centuries of scientists.
Felicity Henderson manages the History of Science programme at the Royal Society. She completed her PhD at Monash University and was the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University in 2003–4. Her current research is on manuscript culture in the early Royal Society.
I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday 26 May at 5.30pm Dr. Felicity Henderson will present, in the McArthur Gallery (Rare Books), off the Redmond Barry Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria, a paper on the Royal Society Library, giving an overview of the Royal Society Library and Archive collections and discussing the importance of these collections in the early days of the Society.
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 “for the pursuit of natural knowledge.” The early fellows collected knowledge wherever they could find it—through experiment and personal observation; through conversation with sailors, tradesmen and merchants; and through printed and manuscript texts. They soon began a collection of books and archives which has continued to the present day and is now an unparalleled resource for historians of science. It gives a fascinating insight into the social and intellectual worlds of three and a half centuries of scientists.
Felicity Henderson manages the History of Science programme at the Royal Society. She completed her PhD at Monash University and was the Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University in 2003–4. Her current research is on manuscript culture in the early Royal Society.
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