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RBS Museum Talks: Dava Sobel


RBS Museum Talks: Dava Sobel

Start/End Date(s)
06 July 2012

6.30 pm - 7.30 pm


Venue

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND

Chambers Street, Edinburgh

Information
Dava Sobel, author of international bestseller Longitude, is in conversation with Professor John C Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and Dr John C Taylor, creator of the Midsummer Chronophage, a clockwork artwork inspired by 18th century clockmaker John Harrison. Harrison featured as a main character in Longitude, which was adapted in 2000 into a BAFTA-winning TV drama with Michael Gambon.

Ticketing
Ticket at Venue

Prices/Concessions
£6 (Concessions/Members £5)

Further Information
www.nms.ac.uk/talks


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