Pfizer Lecture Hall, Mallinckrodt Lab, 12 Oxford Street
Alyssa Goodman, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution
One of the most important scientific challenges in early eighteenth-century Europe was the search for a reliable way to determine longitude at sea. Using a free interactive program called “WorldWide Telescope,” Alyssa Goodman will demonstrate how various historic and modern systems for measuring longitude at sea work (or fail to work), highlighting key life-saving...
Take a peek into the world of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and into the Universe. Learn about the history of and future plans for...