Christopher Wren’s Cosmos

Sir Christopher Wren was one of the most remarkable Gresham Professors of Astronomy. Though best known today as the architectural mastermind behind the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, Wren’s appointment to the Gresham chair in 1657 stemmed from his enthusiasm for turning his gaze well above London’s skyline and focussing his attention on the heavens above.
This lecture will consider Wren’s contributions to astronomy and how Wren’s appreciation of and contributions to art and design, and science and engineering, were fully integrated in his life and made him a polymath on a par with Leonardo da Vinci.
A lecture by Katherine Blundell OBE recorded on 22 February 2023 at David Game College, London.
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This is my third view of this lecture and I'm amazed at how much knowledge is conveyed here. Many thanks for such excellence.

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Thank you Gresham Collage.

[@JerOCx]

Thank you (yet again) to Prof. Katherine Blundell for these brilliant lectures! I say this every release... You truly are my favorite lecturer. Also I have found other topics with great professors on this site.. So thank Gresham College for all the posts, lectures & excellent work!! Prof. Katherine Blundell you are absolutely amazing.. And your Global Jet Watch is inspiring! (I have to rewatch this episode... But I don't believe you said my favorite phrase this time !... "Not abit of it"😃

[@yildizkernchen1737]

I actually attended at prof Sarah Hart's lecture about Wren and geometry he used for St Paul Cathedral 's dome ( that i've never knewn.) She spoke in such great enthusiasm it was so infectious that I wished that I knew more about Mathematics.

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

Reading Lisa Jardine's superb biography of Christopher Wren is what first got me interested in the Enlightenment, and at this point I've read over eighty nooks on the period, including biographies and histories.

[@emilythorne8181]

The joy

[@RonJohn63]

49:58 It's patently obvious that people were emotionally tough, up through and including WW2. "Keep calm and carry on." Professor Blundell makes it obvious that this doesn't happen anymore.

[@probro9898]

African telescopes? I think she meant elephants.

[@erikadash687]

My great grandfather .. 13x

[@doctorstefantiron]

True, it's incredible how fussy the British can be over their royals. It's amazing to attend these lectures, yet there's so much composure & strange dead weight of tradition involved.

[@probro9898]

I think we all knew that wren could have known nothing about the opposite side of the moon. The question was, how did Wren represent the opposite side in his model?

[@willhovell9019]

on the back of Robert Hook

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[@davidwilkie9551]

Eclipses would have taught Geometers about the Camera Obscura setup, and Conics in general, from before memories were recorded, apart from scratches and Cave Paintings in the appropriate seasonal aspects to indicate hunting times for hunting and gathering.., and the significance of harmonic acoustics has always been associated with time-timing sync-duration Observation "Cosmology", built around learning by doing experience. Our real-time relative-timing sum-of-all-histories existence is literally living in harmony with the functional Universal standing wave-packaging formation. So the "Magical Thinking" derivivation of religious beliefs in Auditorium is perfectly obvious QM-TIME Completeness relevance and holographic time-timing presence of probabilistic correlations in temporal resonance.., ie Quantum Operator Logic Fields Modulation Mechanism Singularity positioning integration.

[@vapeymcvape5000]

I normally love Katherine's lectures but the constant hitting of the microphone is unbearable.

[@gabrieldunn7384]

Sound wasn't too bad.

[@carolinshining-warner2020]

Pre-Covid lecture hall sound was perfect 😢

[@carolinshining-warner2020]

Long hair hitting the mic??

[@shadetreader]

Charles got what all royals deserve.

[@KamikazethecatII]

charles was a hero and a martyr

[@ViscountWoodspring]

@@KamikazethecatII Carolus Rex Ora pro Nobis.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Black Hole Singularity positioning in Black-body Holographic Principle Perspective Imagery is a principal innate design feature of the Camera Obscura setup and relative-timing gearbox proportioning of sync-duration holography dimensionality coordination, shaping-shifting time-timing superposition-> sync-duration here-now-forever, the line-of-sight scalar of density-intensity probability dominance in naturally occurring AM-FM Sublimation-Tunnelling Communication of Aether "connection in Absolute zero-infinity orthogonality log-antilog interference positioning-location structure.., 0-1-2-ness string nodal-vibrational emitter-receiver quantization cause-effect floating in 3-ness Cavity Resonance of 3D-T Perspective. We can say for sure that Wren was definitely aware of this presentation of Actuality, but as always, ..it's not what you know/say, it's how you explain it and use it in manifestation that "matters " in materialisation. This Universe is logarithmic condensation modulation, analog self-defining infinitesimal coordination-identification positioning, holographic distribution-superposition, and everyone who contemplated existence was "doing what comes naturally" in continuous creation awareness of real-time Actuality.

[@davidseed2939]

african telescopes no elephamts micrometer no microscope orbiting the moon no sun and other mistakes

[@probro9898]

What's an elephamt?

[@peterfarrington843]

I gave up after 27 seconds. "...before the United States of America was a thing."

[@carrie4696]

Why?

[@Mirrorgirl492]

What a loser 🤣 and you bothered to let us know 😂

[@pdelong42]

It was just an offhand comment. Was it really so offensive? Your loss, I guess.