The Royal Observatory, Greenwich and science popularisation in the 19th century
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - 22:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
At the annual meeting of the British Society for the History of Science, Rebekah Higgitt, a curator at the National Maritime Museum, will reveal how 19th-century astronomers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, used the daily and periodical press and popular science books to bolster support for the growth of the government-funded Observatory...
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