Romantic Chemistry is an interesting exhibition about the extraordinary history of unusual elements with objects and manuscripts of archives and artefacts from the collections of the Royal Society.
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Romantic Chemistry
Monday 03 December 2012 – Friday 14 June 2013
The exhibition is open Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm.
"This is, in truth, the first charm of chemistry, and the secret of the almost universal interest excited by its discoveries. The serious complacency which is afforded by the sense of truth, utility, permanence, and progression, blends with and ennobles the exhilarating surprise and the pleasurable sting of curiosity, which accompany the propounding and the solving on an Enigma… If in Shakespeare we find Nature idealised into Poetry, through the creative power od a profound yet observant meditation, so through the meditative observation of a Davy, Wollaston, or a Hatcheth… we find poetry, as it were, substaintiated and realized in nature.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay on the Principia of Method (1818)