Opening up our work
There is a certain romance in the world’s oldest scientific academy being reunited with an historical folio that fills gaps in the knowledge of its own history. The Society was delighted to be re-acquainted with the Hooke Folio - minutes of the Royal Society taken by Robert Hooke which he never entered in to the Society’s records. Among other things, when the folio was returned to the Society, artist Ian LeColbers was comissioned to create a Hooke tableaux to celebrate its return.
The folio is now being studied, and this first foray by the Royal Society in to the blogosphere will initially chart the progress that researchers Anna Winterbottom and Jenni Thomas make as they explore this document. Later, they will move on to other, equally interesting, documents in the Royal Society’s archives. I hope you enjoy, as I will, sharing in their discoveries. If you have any comments about this service please feel free to leave them on the blog, or e-mail me at the Royal Society.
Rob Fenwick
Royal Society Web Manager, January 2007.
Comments :
A video is nice, but a transcript would be nicer!
I was excited to learn, via links in Wikipedia tonight, of the manuscript’s existence (though their link does not report the passage of the folio from nearing the auction block to your archives), and your site.
This is a very nice-looking blog - before it grows more, since every update is in the update category, the vaguest topics will aid as it grows. A “Hooke” query returned everything, but due to the breadth of his work, entering only keywords of my own knowledge will miss much.
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.