NEW BOOKS FOR NEW YEAR

These new books will be on display through the month of January in the Hoyle building library area.  There is a clipboard underneatrh the display so you can reserve books.

 

Victorian-era telescope dome demolished in 1957

We have just today saved into our digital repository DSpace a scan showing the demolition of the Newall dome at the Cambridge Observatory in 1957. The dome was designed by a wealthy engineer Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889) for his great refractor of 25inches by Thomas Cooke. At the time it was the largest telescope of its type in the world.  The dome was desgned to be prefabricated and was orginally used to house the telescope on Newall's estate, 'Ferndene' in Gateshead being set up around 1871. It was transferred with the telescope to Cambridge in 1889. By the 1950's the dome was in a poor condition and it was not taken when the telescope itself was transferred to Athens where it survives in a new dome.  Click here to see the colour image.

NEW BOOKS FOR DECEMBER

The following new books will be on display in the Hoyle building library area in December.  There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can reserve books

Quantum cosmology: a fundamental description of the Universe / Martin Bojowald  New York: Springer, 2011  ISBN 9781441982759  (136/BOJ)

Follow events at the IoA on Twitter

You can now follow events in the IoA public outreach programme on Twitter.  Find out who's giving this weeks talk and what its on; find out if observing will be going ahead and what will be our targets?  Click here to find us on Twitter.