Ancient Reading in an Historical Context This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...
God's Good Order and the Artist's Patterns For centuries of western history, the beauty of art was...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
Music and Architecture: Confronting the Boundaries between Space and Sound The architect/mathematician turned composer, Iannis Xenakis, was Gresham Professor of...
Scientists Must Protect and Promote Human Rights: It is Principled and in their Interest National science academy members worldwide, concerned about dozens of unjustly...
The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons The 'curious and ingenious' men who met at Gresham College...
Humanity and a Million Years of Sea Level Change Homo sapiens evolved over the last million years during which...
An Even Shorter History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson discusses the history of science and its importance...