"A Stout Heart in the Great Cesspool": Arthur Conan Doyle and London From the impressions of his first youthful visit, to his...
19th-Century Eclipse Expeditions During the late 19th century, British and American organisations such...
Shaping Mathematical Practices of the Science of the Stars Extant manuscripts, early library catalogues, lists of loans and wills...
A Small History of Big Evolutionary Ideas The theory of evolution is often described as the biggest...
Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way The discovery that we live in an ordinary galaxy, one...
Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture This part of the symposium included the following talks: Introduction...