“A History of the Moon” – conference review

The Moon has truly touched every human life on earth and continues to exert a strong influence today: whether gravitationally, emotionally, scientifically or aspirationally. It is that rare thing: a heavenly body that we can aspire to touch and an astronomical phenomenon that appears to change in real-time, whilst remaining perpetually inviolate. On 19th November 2016, I attended a one-day conference on “A History of the Moon” at St Cross College, Oxford. It was extremely well attended – a full house – with an extremely varied audience doubtless drawn to the many different aspects of the programme. We were treated…

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