Gulf Wars 2023 Class Schedule

I’ll be teaching six classes at Gulf Wars this year. Information is below the fold!

  • Class: A Brief History of Medieval Astronomy
  • Date: 3/13/2023
  • Time: 6:00pm CST
  • Event: Gulf Wars
  • Location: AR-Lecture Tent

  • Class: Christianity & Astronomy in the Medieval Period
  • Date: 3/14/2023
  • Time: 6:00pm CST
  • Event: Gulf Wars
  • Location: AR-Lecture Tent

  • Class: Movement of the Heavens & De Sphaera
  • Date: 3/15/2023
  • Time: 6:00pm CST
  • Event: Gulf Wars
  • Location: AR-Lecture Tent
  • Note: This class is 1.5 hours and will combine the Motion of the Heavens class, which uses Stellarium to explore these motions, with my class, De Sphaera, which explores the way we conceptualize the sphere.

  • Class: Mathematics of the Almagest
  • Date: 3/16/2023
  • Time: 6:00pm CST
  • Event: Gulf Wars
  • Location: AR-Lecture Tent

  • Class: Here Comes the Sun
  • Date: 3/16/2023
  • Time: 6:00pm CST
  • Event: Gulf Wars
  • Location: AR-Lecture Tent
  • Note: Since Padraigin will not be at Gulf this year, I will be removing the Astrology portion of this and replacing it with more material on the derivation of the solar model.

  • Class: Ptolemy’s Star Catalog: A Stolen Masterwork
  • Date: 3/16/2023
  • Time: 7:00pm CST
  • Event: Gulf Wars
  • Location: AR-Lecture Tent