Simon Hurst
HoA: Celebrating Pioneering Women in Astronomy, by Simon Nosworthy and Mary Dooley
Last night, we kicked off the 2024-25 season of Flamsteed’s History of Astronomy talks at Mycenae House. Now, we could’ve just given you...
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Mark Jeffery
Feb 291 min read
HoA: Henrietta Levitt – the overlooked pioneer of distance, by Paul Wright
What a fascinating story about one of the unsung heroes of Astronomy. It seems that Henrietta, along with Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina...
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Mark Jeffery
Dec 21, 20231 min read
HoA: Eclipses of the Sun – The Ultimate Experience, by Richard Westwood
Each day, as we wake to the sight of the Sun, we hardly think twice about it. It’s a fixture in our lives, always there – so much so that...
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Mark Jeffery
Nov 23, 20232 min read
HoA: The Story of the Herschels, by Charles Draper
Charles is the chairman of the Herschel society in Bath. The Society was founded in the 1970s to rescue the house in New King Street...
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Mark Jeffery
Oct 18, 20231 min read
HoA: Herschel, Bode, and the Origin of the Flamsteed Numbers, by Dr Wolfgang Steinicke
It was a pleasure to welcome Dr Wolfgang Steinicke to give us the second talk in the History of Astronomy series for this term. Wolfgang...
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Adrian Challinor
Sep 20, 20232 min read
History of Astronomy - Tycho: The First Big Science Project by Dr Jane Clark
The 2023/24 History of Astronomy lectures kicked off with a stunning two-for-one combination of lectures by Dr Jane Clark.
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Mark Jeffery
May 24, 20231 min read
History of Astronomy - Atoms, Photons and the Nebulium Affair by Tony Sizer
We heard about another great Victorian amateur, William Huggins. He not only built his own observatory, but also did much of the...
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Mark Jeffery
Apr 27, 20231 min read
Astronomy in the medieval world By Dr Mike Legget
We heard about a more ancient view of astronomy, one where centuries before the big names, like Copernicus and Brahe, the ancients were...
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Mark Jeffery
Mar 23, 20231 min read
History of Astronomy: What has the space programme ever done for us? by Mary McIntyre
It turns out that the answer to this question is: an awful lot! Mary's talk covered all the areas that have benefited from the space...
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Mike Meynell
Feb 23, 20231 min read
History of Astronomy: William Lassell 1799 - 1880 by Gerard Gilligan
For our second History of Astronomy group meeting of the season, we were treated to a talk by Gerard Gilligan of the Liverpool...
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Mike Meynell
Jan 26, 20232 min read
History of Astronomy: Arrokoth and the Sentinals by Greg Smye-Rumsby
History of Astronomy Meeting - 26 January 2023. With Greg Smye-Rumsby.
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Flamsteed Astronomy Society
Feb 25, 20203 min read
‘Agnes Mary Clerke – from Skibbereen to the Universe’ – History of Astronomy Talk
Agnes Mary Clerke Agnes Mary Clerke was born in Skibbereen in Co Cork in and grew up in the midst of the horrific Irish Famine. Her...
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Flamsteed Astronomy Society
Jan 28, 20202 min read
“Instrumental Engineering in the Time of Sir George Airy” – History of Astronomy Talk – 28th January
In the first of our History of Astronomy sessions for this season, we were presented with a talk by Bill Barton. Bill is a founding...
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Flamsteed Astronomy Society
Nov 25, 20143 min read
Ghosts, Poltergeists, and the Law of Gravity – History of Astronomy Group Meeting
Tony Sizer We were a month late for Halloween but Tony Sizer nevertheless gave us a good scare with “Ghosts, poltergeists, and the Law of...
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Flamsteed Astronomy Society
Jan 28, 20144 min read
Have I Got Astronomers for You – History of Astronomy Group Meeting
Which is the odd one out? Lalande, Hevelius, Patrick Moore or Halley? The first Flamsteed History of Astronomy Group meeting of 2014 was...
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