Tom English, director of the Cline Observatory at GTCC will be our August speaker.
His talk is entitled: Agnes Clerke and the New Astronomy
In the 1880s, an amazing book was published in England by an unheralded woman named Agnes Mary Clerke. Her Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century covered advances in astronomy from the Herschels to the rise of astrophysics, and was so widely heralded that her house in London became an important destination for visits and letters by the top astronomers of the day. This presentation will describe two decades of Clerke’s publications, connections in the astronomical community, and the circumstances that made her work so important (even to this day).
————– The Meeting ————-
Finding the book —
Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
or
Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
The Free Public Lecture at GTCC
Koury Auditorium, Friday, 4 October, 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Don Winget, University of Texas-Austin
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