Tuesday 27 January
Professor David Gooding
Patterns, Structures and Processes: the Art in Science
Tuesday 24 February
Rebekah Higgitt
"Too much of a biographer and too little of an historian":
David Brewster
and his Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855)
Tuesday 30 March
Peter Skelton
Mountaineering and Manners: John Tyndall's
Alpine Conquests and Controversies
Tuesday 27 April
Dr Jon Topham
Scientific Publishing in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
All seminars begin at 6pm with tea from 5.30
Abstracts can be found at www.rigb.org
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Dr Frank A.J.L. James
Reader in History of Science,
The Royal Institution,
21 Albemarle Street,
London,
W1S 4BS,
England.
Direct line 020 7670 2924
Switchboard 020 7409 2992
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