Maths Week Scotland: Update
Maths Week Scotland included lots of activity in St Andrews. The Library’s Special Collections Division was really pleased to be able to take Maths treasures out into the School of Maths last Thursday. Our display was…
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Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015
To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships are intended to underwrite the costs of a period of work…
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 51: How to discover a planet
Humans have been looking to the night sky for millennia in awe and wonder of the heavens above us, or in contemplation of the complex forces that guide the seemingly clockwork nature of our universe. The basic make-up…
52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 29: the heavens, according to Hevelius
As 2013 promises to be an interesting year astronomically and we take to gazing at the stars again, I thought it would be good to turn our focus for this week’s blog to the heavens as well. I began my search for the…