THE Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, whose collections, during the war period, were stored in the basement, is reopening on July 2 with an exhibition of historic scientific instruments pertaining to medicine and surgery. The exhibition will include the extremely fine collection of ...
F. Sherwood Taylor, `Museum of the History of Science, Oxford', Nature 164, 738-739 (1949), at p. 739. Taylor had fought on the western front in World War I (Frank Greenaway, `Taylor, Frank Sherwood (1897-1956)', Oxford dictionary of national biography (Oxford University Press, 2004...
OxfordType:Museum Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3AZ Tel: +44 01865 277280 About The Museum houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpost-built museum building, the Old Ashmolean of Broad Street. Thanks both to the collection...
Oxford LoginSave Students of science will swoon at this fascinating museum, stuffed to the ceilings with awesome astrolabes, astonishing orreries and early electrical apparatus. Housed in the lovely 17th-century building that held the original Ashmolean Museum, it displays everything fro...
Gunther did not live to see this promise fulfilled, for he died in Kerch 1940, leaving the Museum and his fourteen volumes of “Early Science in Oxford’ as a lasting memorial to his labours for the history of science. The War delayed the occupation of the Museum's new galleries ; and ...
An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.
The Ashmolean, the world’s first university museum, opens in Oxford, England. At the time of the English Restoration, Oxford was the center of scientific activity in England. In 1677, English archaeologist Elias Ashmole donated his collection of curiosi
1. London Science Museum (London, England) Image Credit: Amy-Leigh Barnard via Unsplash Year Opened: 1857 The London Science Museum holds a collection of over 300,000 items, including famous items such as Stephenson’s Rocket, Puffing Billy (the oldest surviving steam locomotive), the first je...
SINCE 1940 the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, has been making inquiries as to the whereabouts of a number of valuable and irreplaceable objects which had been stored at the beginning of the War by the late curator of the Museum, Dr. R. T. Gunther. These included the oldest ...
volumes of “Early Science in Oxford’ as a lasting memorial to his labours for the history of science. The War delayed the occupation of the Museum's new galleries ; and even after the Ministry of Labour had vacated the building, it was necessary to instal a new system of lighting and ...