Ah, Mike. Many thanks indeed! - the almagest yes I should have looked there - I had been reading an american textbook which said that Copernicus was ...

Jeffocks wrote: I find that incredible that it would have been possible for people to have worked out the planetary distances before Copernicus, but ...

Hi MIke Wow!!!!! That's amazing - I'm VERY impressed! Thank you for writing all that out, it's very enlightening. I have heard of de revolutionibus t...

I really like this! One can always translate from one code into another (with some odd effects). I did think the Pluto flyby deserved some dedicated ...

1966! Hmmm...when I used to do my party trick and reel off the names Janus came first. Of the books I had in 1980, certainly Patrick Moore's Observer...

Hi again Mike and Andy Thanks for that! I will now scour the tables for next time this daylight appearance of Venus occurs. If anyone knows anything...

Thanks Mike, so it was you at the scope! That was a very auspicious moment for me as it jump started me back on the road to astronomy after a signifi...

Hi Andy - thank you very much for the hospitality! I will certainly try to get to some of those events. I like the sound of your lecture programme, i...