Early Chemistry in Oxford¹

Abstract

AN attempt is being made at Oxford to bring together such scattered information as exists concerning the early history of science in that University, and to commemorate the achievements of Tunstal, Richard of Wallingford, Merle, Mauduit, Rede, Aschenden—forgotten worthies of a medieval time—and of Digges, Recorde, Dwight, Lower, Mayow, and others of a later period. As regards physical science, it is intended to illustrate its development by a sort of catalogue raisonné of scientific instruments, mainly from the collections in the various colleges and University departments which are known to be rich in specimens of the best work of the craftsmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.