Portal:Rede Lecture
The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture (usually Rede Lecture) is an annual lecture given at the University of Cambridge. It is named for Sir Robert Rede, who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the sixteenth century.
Lectures
edit| Year | Title | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|
| 1859 | On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia IA | Richard Owen |
| 1860 | Life on the earth, its origin and succession IA | John Phillips |
| 1865 | On Radiation | John Tyndall |
| 1890 | Erasmus | Richard Claverhouse Jebb |
| 1894 | Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods | John Willis Clark |
| 1895 | The Early Renaissance in England | Mandell Creighton |
| 1901 | English Law and the Renaissance | Frederic William Maitland |
| 1902 | On an Inversion of Ideas as to the Structure of the Universe | Osborne Reynolds |
| 1910 | The parallel between the English and American civil wars | Charles Harding Firth |
| 1911 | The Steam Turbine | Charles Algernon Parsons |
| 1913 | Modern Parliamentary Eloquence | George Nathaniel Curzon |
| 1917 | Science and Industry | Richard Tetley Glazebrook |
| 1919 | Science and War | John Fletcher Moulton |
| 1922 | The Victorian Age | William Ralph Inge |
1858-1899
edit- 1859 Richard Owen On the classifaction and geographical distribution of the Mammalia IA
- 1860 John Phillips Life on the earth, its origin and succession IA
- 1861 Robert Willis The social and architectural history of Trinity College
- 1862 Edward Sabine The cosmical features of terrestrial magnetism
- 1863 David Thomas Ansted The correlation of the natural history sciences
- 1864 George Biddell Airy The late observations of total eclipses of the sun, and the inferences from them
- 1865 John Tyndall On Radiation
- 1866 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin The dissipation of energy
- 1867 John Ruskin The relation of national ethics to national art
- 1868 Friedrich Max Müller On the stratification of language
- 1869 William Huggins On the results of spectrum analysis of the heavenly bodies
- 1870 William Allen Miller On some chemical processes of forming organic compounds, with illustrations from the coal tar colours
- 1871 Joseph Norman Lockyer Recent solar discoveries
- 1872 Edward Augustus Freeman The Unity of History
- 1873 Peter Guthrie Tait Thermo-electricity
- 1874 Samuel White Baker Slavery
- 1875 Henry James Sumner Maine The effects of observation of India upon modern European thought
- 1876 Samuel Birch The monumental history of ancient Egypt
- 1877 Charles Wyville Thomson On some of the results of the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger
- 1878 James Clerk Maxwell On the telephone
- 1879 William Henry Dallinger 'The origin of life, illustrated by the life histories of the least and lowest organisms in nature'
- 1880 George Murray Humphry 'Man, prehistoric, present, future'
- 1881 William Muir The early Caliphate
- 1882 Matthew Arnold Literature and Science[1]
- 1883 Thomas Henry Huxley 'The origin of the existing forms of animal life: construction or evolution?[2]
- 1884 Francis Galton The Measurement of Human Faculty
- 1885 George John Romanes Mind and motion
- 1886 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury On the forms of seedlings and the causes to which they are due
- 1887 John Robert Seeley Greater Britain in the Georgian and in the Victorian era
- 1888 Frederick Augustus Abel Applications of science to the protection of human life
- 1889 George Gabriel Stokes On some effects of the action of light on ponderable matter
- 1890 Richard Claverhouse Jebb Erasmus
- 1891 Alfred Comyn Lyall Natural religion in India
- 1892 Thomas George Bonney The microscope's contributions to the earth's physical history
- 1893 Michael Foster Weariness
- 1894 John Willis Clark Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
- 1895 Mandell Creighton The Early Renaissance in England
- 1896 J. J. Thomson Röntgen rays
- 1897 Arthur William Rücker Recent researches on terrestrial magnetism
- 1898 Henry Irving The theatre in its relation to the state
- 1899 Italian author page Marie Alfred Cornu La théorie des ondes lumineuses: son influence sur la physique moderne
- ↑ Arnold, Matthew (1882). "Literature and Science". Clark University.
- ↑ Huxley, Thomas (1883). "Scientific Memoirs V".