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Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation of Architectural History
The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history.WINNER of the Cambridge Association for Local History book award 2016 Robert Willis was the archetypal nineteenth-century polymath. Officially, as Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he specialized in the study of mechanism, which he also taught at the Royal School of Mines in London. In the field of science he was an experimentalist, inventor and educational innovator. Meanwhile, in his spare time, he pursued his passion, pioneering the serious study of architectural history. Initially his work was aimed at architects - his role in providing...
Letter by Robert Willis to the RIBA, 14 February 1837
Sending his cymagraph to the Institute.
