Our first blogiversary

5 August 2011 by Emma Davidson

Somewhat belatedly, I’ve noticed that we’ve been blogging for (just over) a year now. We love an excuse to celebrate…

Remembering (and forgetting) ‘women in science’

19 July 2011 by Guest bloggers

Guest post by James Poskett It’s 1904. In one hand, Pierre Curie is holding aloft a small piece of radium….

No Gods or Goblins: censorship in the early Philosophical Transactions

5 July 2011 by Felicity Henderson

Recently I came across two seventeenth-century papers in the Society’s archives. The first was an account of a parhelion (mock…

Random reflections on Regiomontanus

8 June 2011 by Emma Davidson

A few days ago I was taking some colleagues on a tour around our library and archive collections. This is…

Love your anemones

27 May 2011 by Jo McManus

Last weekend I donned my wellies, wielded a trowel and helped my parents plant flower seeds for their new cutting…