Early Watchers of the Skies -- Makdougall Brisbane and Other Great Scottish Astronomers

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Lecture, Monday 11 April 2011. Professor John Brown FRSE, Regius Professor of Astronomy, University of Glasgow, 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland.



This talk celebrates the science of eminent Scottish astronomers born of the Enlightenment and laying foundations for Scottish astronomy today. In particular, 2010 marks the 250th anniversary of the 1st Scottish Chair of Astronomy (Glasgow) -- Alexander Wilson, polymath and RSE founder member -- and the 150th anniversary of the death of Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane FRS soldier, colonial Governor, astronomer, and RSE President (1832--1860); others include James Gregory, the Earls of Buchan and Crawford and Thomas Henderson, Scotland's first Astronomer Royal.

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