Restoration reading
5 April 2013 by Felicity Henderson
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia is one of my favourite Restoration books, written by one of my favourite Restoration gentlemen. It’s also…
Felicity joined the Royal Society as Events and Exhibitions Manager for the History of Science programme in 2008. Previously she was Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘Free-thinking and Language Planning in late 17th century England’, based at Cambridge and King’s College London, and prior to that was Munby Fellow in Bibliography at Cambridge University Library. Her first book, ‘Francis Lodwick: On Language, Theology, and Utopia’, co-edited with William Poole, was published by OUP in 2010. Her research centres on 17th century intellectual and manuscript culture, and she is about to begin work on a new edition of Robert Hooke’s diary.
5 April 2013 by Felicity Henderson
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia is one of my favourite Restoration books, written by one of my favourite Restoration gentlemen. It’s also…
21 February 2013 by Felicity Henderson
It’s well-known that the Royal Society was established in 1660, the year of Charles II’s restoration to the throne of…
21 January 2013 by Felicity Henderson
As I write this I’m looking out of our office window onto a blizzard of snow blanketing St James’s Park…
31 August 2012 by Felicity Henderson
In the course of preparing for our new exhibition, ‘Edward Lear and the Scientists’, I came across an undated letter…
10 August 2012 by Felicity Henderson
The Royal Society has a long history of recognising excellence in science and awarding medals to worthy recipients. A quick…