Lectures - Since 1993, the Society has invited eminent scholars in the field to deliver a lecture, for which they can be awarded the Society Medal. These are usually held in London, in November

ANNUAL INVITATION (MEDAL) LECTURES

Since 1993, the Society has invited eminent scholars in the field to deliver a lecture, for which they can be awarded the Society Medal. These are usually held in London, in November. As a rule, the lectures are then published in the Bulletin. Since 2004, these events have been followed by a buffet reception, open to all.

1993 Robert Anderson at the Society of Antiquaries
1994 David King at the Society of Antiquaries
1995 John Heilbron at the Royal Institution
1996 John Leopold at the Royal Institution
1997 Allan Chapman at the Society of Antiquaries
1998 David Bryden at the Royal Institution
1999 John North at the Society of Antiquaries
2000 A.D. Baynes-Cope at the Linnaean Society
2001 Michael Cooper at the Society of Antiquaries
2002 Gerard Turner at the Society of Antiquaries
2003 Michael Wright at the Society of Antiquaries
2004 Anita McConnell at the Society of Antiquaries
2005 Paolo Brenni at the Society of Antiquaries
2006 Willem Mörzer Bruyns at the Society of Antiquaries
2007 Deborah Jean Warner at the Society of Antiquaries

These lectures were published as follows:

R.G.W. Anderson, 'People and Museums: Expectations and Responses'.
A brief report by Helen Turner appeared in SIS Bulletin 40 (1994), p. 15

David A. King, 'Making Instruments Talk: Some Medieval Astronomical Instruments and Their Secrets'.
SIS Bulletin 44 (1995), 5-12

John L. Heilbron, 'Churches as Scientific Instruments'.
SIS Bulletin 48 (March 1996), 4-9.

J.H. Leopold, 'Mechanical Globes circa 1500-1650'.
SIS Bulletin 53 (June 1997), 5-8.

Allan Chapman, 'Gresham College: Scientific Instruments and the Advancement of Useful Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century England'.
SIS Bulletin 56 (March 1998), 6-13.

D.J. Bryden, 'From 16th century London to 19th century Philadelphia. A peregrination through three centuries of instrument advertising and ephemera'.
SIS Bulletin 61 (June 1999), 4-10.

John North, 'The Astrolabe and the Imagination'.
SIS Bulletin 64 (March 2000), 3-6.

A.D. Baynes-Cope, 'A Scientist and Instruments'.
SIS Bulletin 68 (March 2001), 6-9.

Michael Cooper, 'From Graduations on Metal to Binary Biphase Modulation, or From Land and Hydrographic Surveying to Geomatics'.
SIS Bulletin 72 (March 2002), 2-10.

Gerard L'E Turner, 'Scientific Instruments: Why?'.
SIS Bulletin 76 (March 2003), 2-4.

M.T. Wright, 'The Scholar, the Mechanic and the Antikythera Mechanism: complementary approaches to the study of an instrument'.
SIS Bulletin 80 (March 2004), 4-11.

Anita McConnell, 'Instrument Makers in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'.
SIS Bulletin 84 (March 2005), 3-8.

Paolo Brenni, 'Artist and Engineer: The Saga of 19th Century French Precision Industry'.
SIS Bulletin 91 (Dec 2006), 2-11.

Willem Mörzer Bruyns, 'The Navigating Instruments of the National Maritime Museum Greenwich: Research in Progress'.
SIS Bulletin 92 (March 2007), 23-28