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2 August 2006

Newsletter no 20 Errata
Page 4. The end of the first paragraph should read " to declare my age to the nearest ½ or even ¼ year."
Page 16. the "??" should be "25".

Oxford Museums and libraries are collaborating with the Universal Leonardo Project to present Leonardo and Oxford: Discovering the World of Leonardo in Oxford's Collections a series of exhibitions and events around the University from 9 August to 5 November 2006.

• The Ashmolean Museum exhibition will have as its core a group of drawings by Leonardo and will focus on how his world was visualised and interpreted by artists and collectors.
• Christ Church Picture Gallery Leonard and Milan: Drawings from the Guise Collection.

The Museum of the History of Science is exhibiting Wireless World: Marconi and the making of Radio in collaboration with the Bodleian Library to show the "Marconi Collection" documents and artefacts recently presented to the University by the Marconi Corporation, showing his early research and the applications of radio communications to ships, its use in World War I and the beginning of broadcasting.

15 February 2006

On page 32 of The Times of 9 February 2006 a report was published of the finding of a 520 page document describing meetings and debates at The Royal Society between 1661 and 1691 apparently written by Robert Hooke. It has been put up for auction at Bonhams in London in March. The Royal Society has started a fund raising campaign to save it for the nation.

Newsletter issue 19 was published in January 2006.

Prof Emeritus Richard H Dalitz of Oxford University died on Friday 13 January 2006 following a stroke.

Gordon Fraser reviews J D Bernal: The Sage of Science by Andrew Brown pub 2005 Oxford University Press in the February 2006 issue of Physics World page 38.

The British Library has made available on the Internet recordings of 10 Nobel prizewinners, speaking at various times. Three of the 10 are scientists:

• Francis Crick
• Albert Einstein
• Ernest Rutherford

Click here and make your selection.

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