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History of science

June 2024

  • A photograph of two men doing scientific work

    Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth

    Argument about a lemon or an orange-shaped planet highlights importance of international competition in science, curator says

May 2024

  • James Waghorne, Ross Jones and Marcia Langton at the University of Melbourne

    ‘Denying history is simply lying’: how the University of Melbourne honoured racists, thieves and body snatchers

    An unflinching examination of its own history has revealed shocking stories in the sandstone foundations of a revered institution

January 2024

  • Jim Bennett in the top gallery of the History of Science Museum, Oxford University, 2012. To the left of him is an armillary sphere.

    Warm memories of Jim Bennett, whose work on Christopher Wren inspired many

    Letters: Prof Anthony Geraghty and Jenny Woodhouse salute the work and the kindness of the historian and museum curator

December 2023

  • Jim Bennett to the right of an armillary sphere at the History of Science Museum, Oxford, 2012.

    Jim Bennett obituary

    Museum curator with a gift for explaining the history of scientific instruments and the lives of those who made and used them

November 2023

  • John Heilbron, American historian of science. The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, Hay on Wye, Powys, Wales UK, June 01 2016<br>G562YD John Heilbron, American historian of science. The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, Hay on Wye, Powys, Wales UK, June 01 2016

    John Heilbron obituary

    Historian of science whose books, including a biography of Galileo, helped to debunk several myths

July 2023

  • Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger in the Rising Star caves in South Africa

    Were small-brained early humans intelligent? Row erupts over scientists’ claim

    Homo naledi was claimed to be artistic, make tools and bury its dead, but warring experts now ask, where’s the evidence?

April 2023

  • Rosalind Franklin

    Academics find twist in tale of Rosalind Franklin, DNA and the double helix

    Authors say scientist’s role was acknowledged at the time of discovery – contrary to popular narrative

February 2023

  • Illustration of a hand (the arm in a white sleeve) reaching into an old-fashioned sage green medicine cabinet with bottles of different shapes and sizes on shelves

    Medieval medicine: the return to maggots and leeches to treat ailments

  • A detail from a painting of Richard Price by the artist Kevin Sinnott.

    Home village hopes ‘greatest Welsh thinker’ finally receives his dues

January 2023

  • Crystal Gallery, Hunterian museum. The Royal College Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, London. Charles Byrne

    ‘He did not want this’: one man’s two-decade quest to let the ‘Irish Giant’ rest in peace

    Researchers spurred by injustice explain why 18th century Irish man famed for his exceptional height deserves burial he wanted

November 2022

  • The Medicine Man gallery is a free permanent display at the museum run by the charitable Wellcome foundation.

    Wellcome Collection in London shuts ‘racist, sexist and ableist’ medical history gallery

    Medicine Man exhibits included painting of a black African kneeling in front of a white missionary

June 2022

  • On October 27, 2021 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson raises a pint during a visit to Fourpure Brewery in Bermondsey, London. Pints of beer are one of the few products in the UK allowed to be sold in imperial units only. Photo by Dan Kitwood / POOL / AFP

    Science Weekly
    Why would Boris Johnson want to bring back imperial units?

  • Mark Honigsbaum

    The great Coronapause is over, but history tells us that complacency can be a killer

    Mark Honigsbaum

March 2022

  • Heavy rain during Storm Barra around Newhaven harbour lighthouse in East Sussex (built 1869)

    1855 was driest year in UK history, volunteer research project finds

    Citizen scientists helped Reading University analyse millions of rainfall records in first Covid lockdown

February 2022

  • The actress Fanny Brice in 1920; she later went under the knife with a plastic surgeon who had no medical degree.

    Plastic surgery: why chasing physical perfection always ends in tears

    As former supermodel Linda Evangelista reveals her years of anguish after operations, history shows that nature usually wins

December 2021

  • A 16th-century map of the world derived from the observations of Ptolemy

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: in 500 years’ time, which current scientific theories will be as discredited as flat Earth theory?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

  • Darwin's lost microscope: the auction of a history-making 'box of brass' – video

    The first microscope used by Charles Darwin was up for auction at Christie's this week, and this video tells the story of its discovery and importance

  • Round you say?

    Notes and queries
    In 500 years’ time, which current scientific theories will be as discredited as flat Earth theory?

    The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

November 2021

  • Detail from a silver celestial globe, 300-100 BCE. © Nicolas and Alexis Kugel Collection, Photo Guillaume Benoit

    Ancient Greeks: Science and Wisdom review – a show from the dark ages

    A chance to teach us about history’s greatest thinkers goes shamefully wasted in this dumbed-down science exhibition

June 2021

  • Sundial on the coast of St Michael's Mount in Cornwall.

    Science Weekly
    How clocks have shaped civilisations – podcast

    Anand Jagatia talks to horologist David Rooney about his new book, which tells the history of civilisation in twelve clocks
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