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- 1978 (Creation)
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Letter from Prof Piyo M Rattansi, University College London, Mar 1978, to Wilkins, concerning Wilkins’ research for his lecture series, ‘Science and the divine’, given as the Eddington memorial lectures, Cambridge, Apr-May 1978, enclosing articles and reviews by Rattansi, including: ‘Paracelsus and the Puritan revolution’, offprint from Ambix, Feb 1963; ‘Politics and natural philosophy in Civil War England’, offprint from Actes du X1 Congres International d’Histoire des Sciences, 1967; ‘The intellectual origins of the Royal Society’, offprint from Notes and records of the Royal Society of London, Dec 1968; ‘Newton’s alchemical studies’, published in Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance (Science History Publications, New York, 1972); ‘Science and religion in the seventeenth century’, published in The emergence of science in Western Europe, (Macmillan Press, London, 1975); ‘Isaac Newton – 250th anniversary’, offprint from Physics Education, Sep 1977
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A significant portion of the collection items are available online in the Maurice Wilkins and Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit archive hosted by the Wellcome Library.