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Talks and lectures
Georges Lemaitre: Life, Science and Legacy Download the powerpoint slides of the talk here Simon Mitton's lecture for the Sixth Form at St Benedict's School, 54 Eaton Rise, London Borough of Ealing, W5 2ES given on 29 January 2013. The talk is about the Belgian priest Georges Lemaitre who was one of the pioneers in studying the possibility that the universe is expanding. He is now regarded as a "Father of the Big Bang" This topic is also addressed in my latest book with Princeton University Press, Heart of Darkness - Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe Simon Mitton's presentation for Oxbridge Academic given at Westcott House on 18 July 2012. This is a short presentation titled Cambridge Scientific Minds. Includes William Gilbert, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, Arthur Eddington, and Fred Hoyle. It is used as an introduction to a tour of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science Cambridge Scientific Minds Download the powerpoint slides of the talk here Simon Mitton's public lecture at the Royal Astronomical Society given on 8 May 2012. The talk asks "Why is there something rather than nothing?" It explains how our understanding of the origin of structure in the universe has changed over the millenia. The Origin of Structure in the Universe Download the powerpoint slides of the talk here 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 Download the powerpoint slides of the talk here Download the text the talk here 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 Download the powerpoint slides of the talk here 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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