Talks and lectures

Simon Mitton's presentation at the University of Lincoln given on 22 January 2012. Features an assessment of the impact of the cosmology of Bishop Robert Grosseteste (1175-1253), also Plato, Aristotle, Hipparchus of Niceae, Ptolemy of Alexandria, and Nicolaus Copernicus

Geometry and cosmology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Hay Festival 2011 Simon Mitton's presentation on at the Hay Festival given on 27 May 2011

Five Books that changed our view of the universe

The books are Ptolemy Almagest, Copernicus De Revolutionibus, Galileo Sidereus Nuncius and Dialogo, Newton Principia

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Astrofest 2011 Simon Mitton's presentation on Fred Hoyle given on 4 February 2011

Fred Hoyle A life in science: 1915 - 2001

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