Celestial globe by Johann Schöner, c.1534 (c) MHS

Renaissance in Astronomy lecture

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.

Online Exhibition

If you can’t make it along, then you can find out more about the Renaissance in Astronomy via the Museum’s online exhibition.

Related Links: Museum of the History of Science | History of Science degrees at Oxford | Oxford University Podcasts on the History of Science | Renaissance in Astronomy Online Exhibition