“Some Of These Experiments Are Quite Dangerous And Should Not Be Repeated”
Britain’s Royal Society celebrates three hundred fifty years by posting online sixty of the most notable scientific papers it has published, with images of the original manuscripts.
Changes in scientific knowledge have changed our very notion of what constitutes science. In 1666 Robert Boyle published his “Tryals Proposed by Mr. Boyle to Dr. Lower, to be Made by Him, for the Improvement of Transfusing Blood out of One Live Animal into Another”:
NPR’s Guy Raz talks with curator Michael Thompson, introduces some dramatic readings from papers by Isaac Newton, Boyle, and Benjamin Franklin… and fesses up that the reader has been faking his British accent.
