From: TerryMosel
aol.com
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:12:59 EST
Subject: Book, TIME prog, 'Galileo's daughter, Lidl 'Scopes
Hi all,
1. Agnes Mary Clerke's "A Popular History of Astronomy During the
Nineteenth Century" is now available in a facsimile reprint of the 4th edition of 1902.
All the original notes, photographs and appendices are included. Dr. Mary
Brüaut;ck, author of "Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics," has
contributed a new foreword. See the Table of Contents and other details at:
http://han.sattre-press.com/
Paperback, 500pp, 34.95 US dollars. ISBN 0-9718305-5-X.
2. "The next HORIZON programme might be of interest. It's on Thursday 18,
at 9.00, BBC2, on the subject of "Time", and the possibility of 'time travel'.
Any of you who attended the recent excellent event in Armagh on the subject
will no doubt be interested. One of the topics will be Prof. Frank Tipler's
proposed 'time machine' - theoretically possible, they say, if you can build
something with half the mass of our galaxy!
3. Monday, 22 Dec at 7.30pm on Channel 4 A dramatisation of Dava Sobel's
popular book 'Galileo's Daughter'. See:
http://www.umbrella.co.uk/science/galileod.htm
4. I've been given the following details re the Lidl Skylux refractors:
"ABOUT 12 LEFT AS OF 4-30PM TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE NEW LIDL STORE ON
BALLYSILLIAN ROAD IN NORTH BELFAST."
Also, the Lidl store in the Moira Road, Lisburn, had 15 Skylux telescopes in
stock as at 13.00h today last Thurs.
Clear Skies,
Terry Moseley
