We’ve just uploaded a new archive Christmas Lectures series to the website! Click here to watc
We’ve just uploaded a new archive Christmas Lectures series to the website! Click here to watch all 6 lectures of Prof RV Jones’ series ‘From Magna Carta to microchip’.Delivered in 1981, ‘From Magna Carta to microchip’ is devoted to the importance of measurement. Charting through number systems, binary, time and space…Measuring at the grandest and microscopic scales, RV Jones explores how our human obsession with measuring things has changed the way we think about the Universe.RV Jones also explores his wartime work as a scientific military intelligence expert, looking at how precise navigation is needed in the air, on land, sea, and nowadays, in space.This rare series hasn’t been seen publicly since its broadcast in 1981. Watch it for the first time in 37 years on rigb.org -- source link
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