28/04/11…..Learn about ‘the birth of science’ at Thame town hall (June 13)

WHAT is thought to be the first ever public talk about science in Thame, is being promoted by Thame Thame Council.

The council, in association with www.pulse-project.org, is sponsoring the event, a talk on The Origins of Science by Dr Stuart Clark, to be held at the Town Hall On Monday, June 13 at 7.30pm.

Dr Clark will relate: ??how the fractious birth of science in the seventeenth century was driven by some of the hottest blood of all. People like Galileo, Kepler and Newton dreamed of finding a ?theory of everything? ? a way to explain all things in the ?language of God?: mathematics.?

Journalist, award-winning author and broadcaster, Stuart Clark is apparently an engaging storyteller and fiction or non-fiction, his work is written with conviction and with passion. He holds a first-class Honours degree and a PhD in astrophysics and has devoted his career to presenting the complex and dynamic world of astronomy to the general public.

His latest work is the pioneering trilogy, The Sky?s Dark Labyrinth, which blends gripping, original historical fiction with popular science to tell the story of astronomy.

Tickets will be available from the end of May.

SOURCE: Press release