Jim Bennett will speak on
Thoughts and Things: The Role of Craft in 16th-Century Astronomy and
Cosmography
on Tuesday 4 September, 7pm
Museum of the History of Science, Broad Street, Oxford
Professor Bennett is Director of the Museum and curator of the current
exhibition "The Renaissance in Astronomy: Books, Globes and Instruments
of the 16th Century". He will discuss how the exhibition's objects
emerged from craft workshops and print-shops that were valued as sites
of astronomical practice.
Admission free.
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