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Lord Rees has been the Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was the President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010. Between 1975 and 1976, Lord Rees was the Gresham Professor of Astronomy. Lord Rees read Maths at Trinity College
Ian Morison began his love of astronomy when, at the age of 12, he made a telescope out of lenses given to him by his optician. He attended Chichester High School and then went on to study Physics, Mathematics and
Professor Hide was the Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 1984 to 1990. He was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Professor Hide was educated at Percy Jackson Grammar School in South Yorkshire and the University of Manchester
Amongst all his astronomical allusions, Shakespeare demonstrates a deep knowledge of the night sky and its movements, including the new Copernican world-view. What can we learn of Elizabethan astronomy and Shakespeare's knowledge of it from the plays?
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