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F. Sherwood Taylor

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by Sherwood Taylor, I got interested in actually doing chemical experiments. So I started my career as a garage chemist, buying chemicals from the local pharmacist and making things according to the prescriptions then, and going forward to more experiments, just on that basis. I then started — still
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while I was at school — extracting pigments from petals and just doing really cookbook chemistry, on that basis.
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I think like most children, I got interested in nature very early. And then by reading a little book called
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A Short History of Science and Scientific Thought, with readings from the great scientists from the
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The Young Chemist (1934, new edition 1961). Practical Books, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh.
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The Fourfold Vision: a study of the relations of science and religion
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A History of Industrial Chemistry (Technology and Society) (1957)
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He spent a period as a schoolmaster and then as a lecturer in
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Bulletin of the British Society for the History of Science
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A Century of British Chemistry (Science in Britain) (1947)
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in the new Department of History and Method of Science.
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F. Sherwood Taylor wrote many books on the history of
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The March of Mind: A Short History of Science (1939)
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The Alchemists, Founders of Modern Chemistry (1949)
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Two Ways of Life - Christian and Materialist (1947)
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Gunther and the Old Ashmolean 307: 212:The World of Science (1936); 1064 pages 644: 48:(1897 – 5 January 1956) was a British 824:Academics of the University of Oxford 7: 621:MacCarthy, F. L. (1946). "Review of 134:Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 794:Alumni of University College London 784:People educated at Sherborne School 75:F. Sherwood Taylor was educated at 558:Galileo and the Freedom of Thought 106:. He was a founder member of the 25: 789:Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford 518:Books › "F. 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Frank Sherwood Taylor

Curator
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
historian of science
museum curator
chemist
Science Museum
London
England
Sherborne School
Dorset
England
Lincoln College, Oxford
University College, London
chemistry
Queen Mary College, London
Philosophy of Science Group
Ambix
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Robert Gunther
Museum of the History of Science
Oxford
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
British Society for the History of Science
Errol Friedberg
Sydney Brenner
alchemy
chemistry
science

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