Events: detail
400 years of the telescope
- Speaker:
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Professor Ian Morison
- Starts:
- November 26, 2009 at 01:00 pm
- Ends:
- November 26, 2009 at 02:00 pm
- Location:
- Gresham College, Barnard's Inn Hall, High Holborn, London, EC1N 2HH United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
This lecture coincides with the 400th anniversary of the first use of a telescope to observe the heavens by Galileo Galilei in 1609.
It will chart the development of optical telescopes since then, the subtle ideas that are greatly improving their performance and how they are bringing ever further parts of the universe within our reach.
- Registration required:
- No
- Free:
- Yes
For more information
- Website:
- 400 years of the telescope
