I gave a lunchtime talk at Waterstones bookshop in the centre of Oxford today – a lot of interest and discussion in my OUP book: A Very Short Introduction to Telescopes!
Telescopes at Waterstones
My article in first edition of Technica Curiosa
The Next Telescopes The Next Telescopes
10 Interesting Things About Telescopes: Oxford Literary Festival Talk
Oxford Literary Festival: 25 March 2017: Talk in Blackwell’s Marquee Telescopes: A Very Short Introduction There are one hundred billion galaxies in the observable Universe, and each of them has a hundred billion stars. We know this because of one instrument:
Oxford Literary Festival Talk
Was yesterday 25th March 2017 and went very well! There must have been around 100 people listening in Blackwell’s Marquee, on a beautiful sunny spring day. There was no electrical power and so no sound system; but I projected my voice to
Talk at the Oxford Literary Festival
I will be giving a talk on “10 really interesting things about telescopes”, in support of my OUP Book: “Telescopes: A Very Short Introduction” at 13:15 in with Q&A: http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2017/march-25/telescopes-a-very-short-introduction Oxford University Press is proud to return to the FT
OUP Blog: Looking at the stars
Looking at the stars
TELESCOPES: A Very Short Introduction
Is now published by Oxford University Press, and widely available from all the usual sources including Amazon etc. There is also an e-version available
What this site is for…
I have set up this site to expand and update the information (i.e. describe new science results), presented in my book Telescopes: A Very Short Introduction, and also to write about other interesting ideas. Please feel free to suggest any science topics that you
Publication date for my book!
Publication by Oxford University Press will be the 8th December 2016. There will be both printed and e-versions https://global.oup.com/academic/product/telescopes-a-very-short-introduction-9780198745860?q=cottrell&lang=en&cc=gb