Wilkins Lecture
A Wilkins Lecture foi uma palestra organizada pela Royal Society de Londres sobre história da ciência, denominada em memória de John Wilkins, o primeiro secretário da sociedade. A última Wilkins lecture foi apresentada em 2003, sendo depois fundida com a Bernal Lecture e a Medawar Lecture ara formar a Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture.[1]
Lista de palestrantes editar
| Ano | Nome | Lecture | Notas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | John David Griffith Davies | John Wilkins and the Royal Society. | — |
| 1949 | Edward Andrade | Robert Hooke. | — |
| 1950 | Francis Cole | The history of micro-dissection. | — |
| 1952 | Harold Brewer Hartley | Sir Humphry Davy, Bt, P.R.S. | — |
| 1955 | Basil Schonland | Benjamin Franklin, natural philosopher. | — |
| 1958 | Joseph Needham | The missing link in horological history: a Chinese contribution. | — |
| 1961 | Gavin Rylands de Beer | The origins of Darwins ideas on evolution and natural selection. | — |
| 1964 | Giorgio de Santillana | Galileo today. | — |
| 1967 | Geoffrey Keynes | Bacon, Harvey, and the originators of the Royal Society. | — |
| 1970 | Reginald Victor Jones | The plain story of James Watt. | — |
| 1973 | Alfred Rupert Hall | Newton and his editors. | — |
| 1976 | Margaret Gowing | Science, technology and education: England in 1870. | — |
| 1979 | Gweneth Whitteridge | On the local movement of animals. | — |
| 1982 | Sydney Smith | One hundred years after Charles Darwin. | — |
| 1985 | William Thomas Stearn | John Wilkins, John Ray and Carl Linnaeus. | — |
| 1988 | David Landes | Brain and hand in the development of technology of time-measurement. | — |
| 1991 | Stephen Finney Mason | Bishop John Wilkins FRS. | — |
| 1994 | Allan Chapman | Edmond Halley as a historian of science. | — |
| 1997 | Desmond King-Hele | Erasmus Darwin, the Lunatiks and evolution. | — |
| 2000 | Roy Porter | Reflections on scientific and medical futurology since the time of John Wilkins. | — |
| 2003 | Lisa Jardine | Dr Wilkins's boy wonders. | — |
Referências
- ↑ «The 2010 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture». The Royal Society. Consultado em 14 de agosto de 2010
- «The Wilkins Lecture (1947)». Consultado em 20 de março de 2009