This 50th lecture in the “Astronomy for All” series, begun by Charles Barclay in 2006, celebrates the enduring link between Green Templeton College—home of the Radcliffe Observatory—and the Oxford Astrophysics Department.
Barclay will explore Hornsby’s tenure as Savilian Professor of Astronomy, his groundbreaking observations (including the 1769 transit of Venus), and the founding of the Radcliffe Observatory, illuminating how eighteenth-century vision shaped Oxford’s modern astronomical legacy.