[BAA-ebulletin 00666] Reminder - Historical Section Meeting - Saturday May 5th 2012

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Reminder - Historical Section Meeting - Saturday May 5th 2012

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We hope to see you at the forthcoming BAA Historical Section meeting

Date:    Saturday May 5th 2012
Time:    10:30 - 17:30  (doors open at 10:00)
Venue:   Soho House, Handsworth, Birmingham, B18 5LB

The theme is "Astronomy in the Industrial Age (1700-1900)"

Speakers:

Mike Maunder - The early days of astrophotography
Mike Leggett - Bryan Donkin FRS: Engineer, industrialist and astronomer
Kevin Kilburn - The forgotten star atlas: Bevis's Uranographia Britannica
Stuart Williams - William Henry Robinson: From Red Books to the Red Planet

and our keynote speaker:

Allan Chapman - James Nasmyth: Astronomer of Fire

Soho House was the home of Matthew Boulton, eighteenth-century industrialist 
(he features on the fifty pound note) and meeting place of the Lunar Society,
whose members included James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley and 
Josiah Wedgwood. The house is closed to the public until the summer, but we
are hoping to arrange a guided tour.

More details on our web site - www.britastro.org/history

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Historical Section Director: Mike Frost         frostma at aol.com
Deputy Director: Lee Macdonald                  lt at macdonald42.freeserve.co.uk