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Writing tagged: ‘astronomy’

Cosmological conversation with my dad

How far away is the sun?

Published 27-Sep-2017
Filed under: Blog Tags: astronomy, conversations, cosmology, dad

Two triumphant predictions for science

In which one of Darwin's correspondents compares Darwin's famous moth prediction with the prediction of the orbit of the planet Neptune.

Published 11-Jul-2011
Filed under: Blog Tags: angraecum sesquipedale, astronomy, charles darwin, darwin correspondence, darwin's predictions, xanthopan morgani

400 years of telescopic astronomy

400 years ago today, on 26th July, 1609, the early English scientist Thomas Harriot pointed his new-fangled telescope at the moon and made a drawing.

Published 26-Jul-2009
Filed under: Blog Tags: anniversaries, astronomy, florence, galileo, scientific instruments

Life on Mars!

'Popular Scientific Recreations, Profusely Illustrated' on the subject of Mars.

Published 26-Oct-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: alien life, astrobiology, astronomy, books, nasa, popular scientific recreations profusely illustrated

In a word…

Amazing space photo.

Published 29-May-2008
Filed under: Blog Tags: astronomy

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