Latitude Exhibition_The Van de Veldes Outreach and Diversity officer for

Outreach and Diversity officer for the Royal Astronomical Society

and Peacock & Mansfield

The light from the star Polaris that I used to calibrate my mount was made in the lifetime of those on the voyage as it is just over 400 light years away

With exclusive photos and specially commissioned illustrations

He returned in 1660 as Britain's new King when the monarchy was restored albeit with fewer privileges than they had before the Civil War

Latitude Exhibition_The Van de Veldes Outreach and Diversity officer forThree hundred years ago, no one knew the true shape of the world. Author: Nicholas Crane It wasn't a sphere but did it bulge at the equator or was it pointed at the poles? Until we found out no map could ever be truly accurate. So a team of scientists was sent to South America to measure one full degree of latitude. But South America was a land of erupting volcanoes, sodden rainforests, earthquakes, deadly diseases, tropical storms and violent unrest.