Researchers at Lancaster University in the UK have discovered hundreds of unpublished poems written by the nineteenth-century British chemist Sir Humphry Davy in his private notebooks. Much of the ...

Sharon Ruston is lead educator on an online course: Humphry Davy: Laughing gas, Literature and the Lamp. The course runs from 30 October 2017 and is a collaboration ...

Sir Humphry Davy (centre) surrounded by pages from his notebooks capturing his calculations, artwork, poetry, notes and doodles. The portrait of Sir Humphry is by H.W. Pickersgill and courtesy of the ...

Colophon: London : Printed by Stewart and Murray ... Contents v. 1. Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy / by his brother, John Davy -- v. 2. Early miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, with an ...

(via Royal Institution) Humphry Davy is one of the best know men of science of the nineteenth century. He isolated nine different chemical elements, was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide and ...

Sir Humphry Davy is a name well known to many students of chemistry. Isolator of elements and inventor of a safety lamp for miners, Davy was one of the most famous chemists of the late 1700s and early ...

Organised by Penzance BID with support from Penzance Council, the event has been held every year since 2021 and continues to ...

The Davy Notebooks Project has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp ...

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IT is always interesting to attempt to trace the origin of scientific work, and although the results are liable to error, they provide a key to much that otherwise would be obscure. In this book Mr.

Davy, Humphry Sir 1778-1829 Account of an invention for giving light in explosive mixtures of fire-damp in coal mines, by consuming the fire-damp Extracted from: Philosophical transactions of the ...