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An auspicious day to found an Observatory
The Royal Observatory has several possible birthdays. I have, for example, seen it given as 4 March or 22 June 1675. The first is the date of Charles II’s Royal Warrant that ordered the Board of...
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More than transitory interest: an instrument of note
Slightly belatedly, here’s a cross-posting of my last post on the Longitude Project blog, which takes a closer look at a significant astronomical relic: A lesson quickly learned in the world of museum...
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Is there ‘a rising tide of irrationality’?
Cross-posted from The H Word. I often come across the assumption, or assertion, that pseudoscientific views or belief in the paranormal are increasing. Yet the claim that there is a “rising tide of...
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Drawing Mars in Greenwich: recreating an experiment for Stargazing Live
Cross-posted from The H Word blog. Filming for Stargazing Live at Queen’s House in Greenwich. Photograph: Marek Kukula This week [NB This post was first published on 7 January 2013] sees the return of...
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Heritage and the Royal Institution
Cross-posted from The H Word blog [first published 29 January 2013]. The Royal Institution in about 1838, by T H Shepherd. Source: Wikimedia Commons It has been interesting to observe reactions to the...
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Messing with time
Cross-posted from The H Word blog, first posted on 31 March 2013, the first day of British Summer Time. It’s hardly surprising that I’ve become very aware of time and how we measure it since beginning...
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Farewell Greenwich Mean Time (see you in October)
Cross-posted from The H Word blog, where this was first published on 30 March 2014. The 24-hour Shepherd Gate Clock outside the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, displaying Greenwich Mean Time to the...
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Longitude Season has started…
There has already been plenty of longitude on this blog, The H Word and the Longitude Project blog, so apologies that there is more to come. This has all been leading up to 2014, the tercentenary of...
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Science fictions and the history of science
Cross-posted from Science Comma blog. For those who are fans of sci-fi, or interested in how sci-fi plays into the history of science, there are some things you might want to take a look at. Firstly,...
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Real, replica, fake or fiction?
When we allowed a Steampunk ‘intervention’ into Flamsteed House and the Time and Longitude Gallery at the Royal Observatory Greenwich last year, in the exhibition Longitude Punk’d, reactions were...
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