The Naval Historian and His Sources

The Historian and Archival Finding Aids

Technologist-Historian: Data Visualization Meets the Archive.

Elias Ashmole (1617–1692). His Autobiographical and Historical Notes, his Correspondence, and Other Contemporary Sources Relating to his Life and Work

This beautifully produced, well-illustrated edition of Elias Ashmole's diary notes and letters including a whole volume of introduction by the editor and an index volume fills a much-needed gap in our knowledge of the seventeenth century and its personalities in England. It has been attacked on the grounds that too much uninteresting detail had been included when nearly all available material w...

Andrew Malcolm of Belfast: Physician and Historian

THIS book is in two parts: a biography of Malcolm (134 pages) and a facsimile reproduction of his History of the Belfast General Hospital and the Principal Medical Institutions of the Town, first published in 1851 (by S. & G. Agnew) but long out of print and now rare. Both are wvelcome; their publication in one well-produced and comparatively inexpensive volume is particularly appropriate. Thos...

Charles Raven. Naturalist, historian, theologian

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...