Project blog
The project investigates the relationship between science and visual culture in seventeenth-century England. Specifically, it examines the historical origins of the visual character of science with respect to the activities of the Royal Society. It wishes to understand how art, artists, and reproductive-print makers enabled creativity and innovation in science in the seventeenth century, and to what extent naturalists and natural philosophers, in turn, transformed such visual resources and strategies into something of their own.
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The Carrara Herbal – Sarah Kyle’s Pandora’s bo
4 April 2017
Sarah R. Kyle, Associate Professor of Humanities, University of Central Oklahoma, has just published a book Medicine & Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: the Carrara Herbal...
Scientific Illustrations in the Freshwater Biological Association Collections
14 July 2016
In November 2015, after 6 years of working on Carl Linnaeus’s manuscripts, I began a new job as Information Scientist for the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA) on the shores...
Deadline 6 July: Funded PhD opportunity on Hans Sloane’s Books
13 June 2016
Visitors to this site might have know of brilliant undergraduates or Master’s students looking for a funded PhD position. ‘Hans Sloane’s Books: an early Enlightenment...
New Book by Florike Egmond: Eye for Detail
25 May 2016
Those of you who remember Florike Egmond’s rediscovery of Gessner’s natural history drawings would be interested to know that her book discussing those drawings and MUCH...