China’s Space Programme: Ambition and Concern What are the Chinese space ambitions? Should the rest of...
Rosetta: Unlocking Secrets from Ancient Egypt to a Comet Just as the Rosetta Stone and the Philae Obelisk became...
Sir Robert Moray - Soldier, scientist, spy, freemason and founder of The Royal Society Sir Robert Moray brought together members of Gresham College, rich...
Michelangelo, Copernicus and the Sistine Chapel It is argued that Copernicus’ theory of the sun-centred universe...
Heading for Trouble: The perils of navigation This lecture was a part of the SeaBritrain2005 series of...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
The Beginning and the End: Images of the Universe Creation and Last Judgement, or Big Bang and Gravitational Collapse...