Metals and the Royal Society

In this book two distinguished metallurgists have traced the role of metallurgical technology in the creation of the scientific revolution and the formation of the Royal Society. These contributions have been described in a series of thematic chapters on such topics as minting of coinage, platinum metallurgy and metallurgy and the electrical age and atomic science.

Brief biographies are given of the Fellows and Foreign Members mentioned in the text.

"As a metallurgist turned materials scientist who has developed a strong interest in the antecedents of the modern science, I salute this work as one of the most ambitious and comprehensive surveys of those antecedents. The book is not expensive in view of its size, it is beautifully produced, and even in these days of shrinking library budgets it should soon be found in a wide range of university libraries, and on personal shelves as well." (Robert W. Cahn FRS, University of Cambridge. Review, 2000, 44, 1)