Felicity Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5664892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3836-4216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1647 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Highly irregular
The Image of Restoration Science
The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)." The Seventeenth Century, 34(2), pp. 265–266
Collecting Nature
This volume of collected essays arises from a conference, Collecting Nature, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee in 2013 under the auspices of the ‘Collecting & Display’ international research forum (www.collectinganddisplay.com). The nine essays in the main body of the volume cover a wide historical period, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth; they are also geographically diverse in their coverage. The term nat…
Wicked Intelligence
Matthew C. Hunter. Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvii + 330 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-226-01729-7. - Volume 67 Issue 3
Faithful interpreters? Translation theory and practice at the early Royal Society
The early Fellows of the Royal Society received letters, papers and printed books written in several European vernaculars. In many cases a translation was needed to make these texts accessible. Translators, though, had to negotiate the Society's corporate views on language and prose style, and also prevailing contemporary theories of literary translation set out by popular poets such as John Dryden and Abraham Cowley. This article examines the tr…
Francis Lodwick
"The book is divided into three parts. Part One includes A Common Writing (1647), the first English attempt at an artificial language, and the equally pioneering phonetic alphabet set out in An Essay Towards an Universal Alphabet (1686). Part Two contains a series of linked short treatises on the nature of religion and divine revelation, including 'Of the Word of God' and 'Of the Use of Reason in Religion', in which Lodwick argues for a new under…
Unpublished material from the memorandum book of Robert Hooke, Guildhall Library MS 1758
Robert Hooke began keeping a journal or memorandum book on 10 March 1672, and continued until May 1683. This document, now Guildhall Library MS 1758, is the most important record of Hooke's life and work in his most active period, and is a significant source of information about the activities of the early Fellows of the Royal Society. Most of the manuscript was transcribed and published by Henry W. Robinson and Walter Adams as The Diary of Rober…
A Common Writing
Faithful interpreters? Translation theory and practice at the early Royal Society
The early Fellows of the Royal Society received letters, papers and printed books written in several European vernaculars. In many cases a translation was needed to make these texts accessible. Translators, though, had to negotiate the Society's corporate views on language and prose style, and also prevailing contemporary theories of literary translation set out by popular poets such as John Dryden and Abraham Cowley. This article examines the tr…
A Common Writing
Unpublished material from the memorandum book of Robert Hooke, Guildhall Library MS 1758
Robert Hooke began keeping a journal or memorandum book on 10 March 1672, and continued until May 1683. This document, now Guildhall Library MS 1758, is the most important record of Hooke's life and work in his most active period, and is a significant source of information about the activities of the early Fellows of the Royal Society. Most of the manuscript was transcribed and published by Henry W. Robinson and Walter Adams as The Diary of Rober…
Francis Lodwick
"The book is divided into three parts. Part One includes A Common Writing (1647), the first English attempt at an artificial language, and the equally pioneering phonetic alphabet set out in An Essay Towards an Universal Alphabet (1686). Part Two contains a series of linked short treatises on the nature of religion and divine revelation, including 'Of the Word of God' and 'Of the Use of Reason in Religion', in which Lodwick argues for a new under…
Faithful interpreters? Translation theory and practice at the early Royal Society
The early Fellows of the Royal Society received letters, papers and printed books written in several European vernaculars. In many cases a translation was needed to make these texts accessible. Translators, though, had to negotiate the Society's corporate views on language and prose style, and also prevailing contemporary theories of literary translation set out by popular poets such as John Dryden and Abraham Cowley. This article examines the tr…
Wicked Intelligence
Matthew C. Hunter. Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvii + 330 pp. $55. ISBN: 978-0-226-01729-7. - Volume 67 Issue 3
Collecting Nature
This volume of collected essays arises from a conference, Collecting Nature, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee in 2013 under the auspices of the ‘Collecting & Display’ international research forum (www.collectinganddisplay.com). The nine essays in the main body of the volume cover a wide historical period, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth; they are also geographically diverse in their coverage. The term nat…
The Image of Restoration Science
The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)." The Seventeenth Century, 34(2), pp. 265–266
Highly irregular
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)