EARLY SCIENCE IN OXFORD 
Some Extracts from Reviews 
‘ The work is a real encyclopaedia of learning ; it is profusely 
illustrated, and its appearance does justice to the Clarendon 
Press.’—Sir Arthur Shipley in Discovery. 
‘ It traces the beginnings from Roger Bacon ( 1214 - 92 ), who 
may be said to have well and truly laid its foundations 
as a science by his insistence on the appeal to experiment.’ 
Sir Edward Thorpe in Nature. 
‘ Fills the valued role of one of the chart-makers, whose 
labours are bringing to light the near apposition of the seven¬ 
teenth and the twentieth centuries in the basic methods of 
science.’— Irvtne Masson in Nature. 
‘ Few if any can have had any suspicion that there was so 
much to be learnt or recovered about the history of science 
in Oxford as is represented by this beautifully illustrated 
catalogue.’ 
The Oxford reader ‘ will be proud also of those discoveries 
and advances in his science with which Oxford has been 
intimately connected. The transfusion of blood was first 
effected there by Richard Lower ; injection was the invention 
of Wren ; Boyle, Hooke, Lower and Mayow laid bare the 
mystery of respiration ; Hooke discovered those cells of which 
animals and plants are built. He will recognize also that 
from an early period his University was not behind other 
seats of learning’. — Times Literary Supplement. 
‘A work which. . . will occupy an important place in the 
history of science, bringing together for the first time much 
scattered information about steps in that history which are 
but little known.’— Times. 
1 Such a work is no mere display of local pride. It is a 
contribution of the greatest value to the history of science at 
large. ... A delightful book to read.’—Dr. F. R. PACKARD in 
A nnals of Medical History. 
