History of Astronomy Workshops to be held July 7-10

Author: Shannon Roddel

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The University of Notre Dames History and Philosophy of Science graduate program will host its Seventh Biennial History of Astronomy Workshops from July 7 through 10 (Thursday through Sunday) in the auditorium of McKenna Hall.

Clive Ruggles, professor of archaeoastronomy in theSchoolofArchaeologyand Ancient History at theUniversityofLeicester, will deliver the keynote address, titledAstronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds?at8 p.m.Thursday.

The conference is co-sponsored by the History of Astronomy Special Interest Group of the History of Science Society and the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society.

A complete schedule of events is available at http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/ndviiinfo/schedule.html .

* Contact: * _Matt Dowd, conference co-chair, mdowd1@nd.edu _

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