Jonathan King, Von Hűgel Research Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, will discuss Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) who, with Newton, dominated science in London during the first half of the 18th century.

As a physician Sloane visited Jamaica in the 1680s, publishing two volumes of descriptive research, Voyage to Jamaica in 1707 and 1725. These constitute the first scientific accounts published in Britain about tropical America. They also provide an extraordinary insight into the island and its inhabitants at this time, African and European. Among other things Sloane published the first African American music, recorded from people from the Congo and Ghana.

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