Date: Friday 14 November
Time: 7.30pm
Location: St Margaret’s Church, Lee Terrace, SE13 5EA
This will be the second annual Edmund Halley Lecture.
Edmund Halley was am English astronomer and mathematician and was the first to map the orbit of the e eponymous Halley’s Comet. He is buried in the churchyard of St Margaret’s Church in Lee.
Last autumn the current Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees gave the inaugural address on the future of science, and this year Sir John Houghton will be taking on the Climate Change sceptics with a lecture on the likely perils of ignoring climate change.
Speaker: Sir John Houghton played a key role in establishing the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC).
Tickets: £10
To book, contact the St Margaret’s Team.
Email: stmargaretsLee@btinternet.com
Tel: 0208 318 9643
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