Monday 21 October 2013

Oxford Science Propaganda

One thing I love about Oxford is the high level of the background art work. I'd love my car to look like this:
 
 
Part of the Bodleian Library was being repaired. This is what was on the hoardings around the building site:

 
My Sixth Form will be familiar with Hooke's Law but in the 17th Century they tended to be all-round scientists. This is from Robert Hooke's work with microscopes.

 
It's coming up to the centenary of the first discovery of X-ray crystallography. A strong Wigton connection there - more on that next year. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin used the technique.