British Association For The Advancement Of Science
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In the 1860s the Dublin engineer Thomas Grubb built the world’s most advanced telescope
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Science is a fairly recent invention, while ‘scientist’ was coined less then 200 years ago
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Carlow man reached the pinnacle of 19th century science but full recognition eluded him
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Woven Shades of Green is a ‘a generous treasury of Irish nature poetry and prose’
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Extraordinary Emigrants: Kathleen Lonsdale was the first woman professor at UCL
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In the 19th century, George Romanes was pilloried for suggesting that the most intelligent animals could learn to form abstract ideas
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