Wolfson Medical Building

The first in an annual lecture series honouring the life of esteemed astronomer, the late Prof. John C Brown. Talk by Prof. Randall Stevenson Celestial Visitants – Comets and Culture in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond Prof. John Brown explained that he was first attracted towards astronomy by a childhood view of a comet – Comet Arend-Roland. He also recorded strong interests, in later life, in ‘the arts-science interface’. This first John Brown Memorial Lecture will look, accordingly, at an…