Richard de Grijs

Richard de Grijs is an astronomer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In addition to his scientific research, he is very active in the field of science popularization. His interests are wide-ranging, from hard-core (astro)physics to ethnomusicology, with a more recent focus on the history of science. His recent monograph, Time and Time Again (2017, Institute of Physics Publishing, UK), explores the history of the determination of longitude at sea in the 17th Century.

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