One of the most surprising and interesting things that Sarah Wild found, while doing research for her book on the Square Kilometre Array, Searching African Skies, was ?just how long the history of astronomy is in South Africa?.
Since the 1600?s, Wild explains in a video interview with Aerodrome, the stars have been used by sailors to navigate their way to the southern tip of Africa and when the 1820 settlers arrived from England, they had an astronomer aboard.
Now this history ?has culminating in us sharing the biggest scientific astronomical project in the world,? Wild says, referring to the SKA.
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- Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa?s quest to hear the songs of the stars by Sarah Wild
EAN: 9781431404728
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