Wednesday, May 21, 2014

How the Earth Moves - Professor Carolin Crawford

Our spaceship Earth is in constant motion – rotating and revolving as it traverses through space. This is a story of our evolving understanding of the geography of Earth’s position in space – a story of parallax, aberration and astrometry that stretches from the ancient Greeks to the most modern satellite, Gaia. (from gresham.ac.uk)



About the Lecturer
Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science, astrophysicist researcher, lecturer and academic based at the Institute of Astronomy and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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