[time-nuts] Sir Patrick Moore
Related to time-nuttery as astonomical observation was used for time-keeping until C20. Sir Patrick Moore, the great amateur astonomer died yesterday at the age of 89. A gentleman, astronomer, and true scholar. His death was predicatable as he's been very ill for a long time, but nonetheless a great loss. Regards, David Partridge ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Sir Patrick Moore
On 10 December 2012 09:24, David C. Partridge david.partri...@perdrix.co.uk wrote: Related to time-nuttery as astonomical observation was used for time-keeping until C20. Sir Patrick Moore, the great amateur astonomer died yesterday at the age of 89. Although considered an amateur, I assume he got paid for presenting The Sky At Night. According to Wikipediat at least, he was an author of over 70 books on astronomy. So perhaps amateur is not quite the right word. A gentleman, astronomer, and true scholar. His death was predicatable as he's been very ill for a long time, but nonetheless a great loss. I think the death of us is all predictable! But I sorry to hear of his passing away. I suspect there are a good few people who have astronomy PhDs, which would not have studied astronomy if it was not for Patrick Moore. He certainly insprired me to buy a telescope (4.5 reflector), but I never studied the subject professionally. Regards, David Partridge Dave ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Sir Patrick Moore
On 12/10/2012 7:10 AM, David Kirkby wrote: On 10 December 2012 09:24, David C. Partridge david.partri...@perdrix.co.uk wrote: Related to time-nuttery as astonomical observation was used for time-keeping until C20. Sir Patrick Moore, the great amateur astonomer died yesterday at the age of 89. Although considered an amateur, I assume he got paid for presenting The Sky At Night. According to Wikipediat at least, he was an author of over 70 books on astronomy. So perhaps amateur is not quite the right word. If I'm remembering correctly, he was a guest several times on the BBC radio show Just A Minute and was absolutely wonderful -- ideal for that show because he spoke about 600 words per minute and made perfect sense while doing so. John ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
