Come to our next public lecture and star party at the Morgan Arboretum!
When: Saturday, October 22, 2011, 8:00 pm
Where: Morgan Arboretum, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue
Speaker: Stuart Clark
Lecture: Exploring The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth
Abstract:
Cold, rational, detached – just some of the words commonly associated with science. In this presentation, Dr Stuart Clark will relate how the fractious birth of science in the seventeenth century was driven by some of the hottest blood of all. People like Galileo, Kepler and Newton dreamed of finding a ‘theory of everything’ – a way to explain all things in the ‘language of God’: mathematics. Perhaps most surprising of all is that they drew heavily on things that science now rejects: astrology and alchemy. Under-funded, under-appreciated, driven by the noblest dreams of achievement yet consumed by the pettiest of jealousies, this tale of science’s birth has a surprisingly modern ring to it.
About the speaker:
Journalist, award-winning author and broadcaster, Stuart Clark is an engaging storyteller. Fiction or non-fiction, his work is written with conviction and with passion. He holds a first-class honours degree and a PhD in astrophysics and has devoted his career to presenting the complex and dynamic world of astronomy to the general public. His latest work is the pioneering trilogy The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth, which blends gripping, original historical fiction with popular science to tell of the story of astronomy.
His Twitter account is @DrStuClark and his website is www.stuartclark.com
This is a free public event.
Telescopes available – weather permitting
