Lodovico Beccadelli / en Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2019 /node/1981 Anniversaries, Alumni, and Acquisitions: ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library in 2019 Christopher Skelton-Foord Issue number (2019): 12 Notes category ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ history 21stC history Geometry Astronomy Savilian professorships Sir Henry Savile Library Antiquarian Women students Kate Mosse Reginald Pole Lodovico Beccadelli

2019 was a year of notable anniversaries, marking as it does both the 400th anniversary of the Savilian Professorships in geometry and astronomy, and the 40th anniversary of women students at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ.  In 1619, the scholar and diplomat Sir Henry Savile (1549–1622) founded two university chairs bearing his name, which have long been associated with ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ.  And if we fast-forward from 1619 in Oxford some 360 years to 1979, women students are for the first time ever matriculating at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ.

 

Paula Wilson, Portrait of Ruth Mazo Karras and Caroline Kay (2019)
Oil on board, 100 x 90 cms, ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford

 

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