Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
The promotion advancement of science, literature and art
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 28 Feb 2012 19:30 - 21:30 | French Culture Group. |
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde covers the life and artwork of this innovative modern artist, showing clips of interviews and archive footage. ‘Whether creating Dada sculptures, such as his famous iron with a row of tacks, enigmatically entitled Le Cadeau (The Gift), films, innovative photographs, or sculptures, Man Ray always manages to surprise.’
Anyone who heard Melvyn Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’ programme this week, all about Game Theory, will know that it began with the study of board games.A timely topic for BRLSI, because this coming Thursday we have a talk by a world expert on Mancala Games: rich territory for Game Theorists.
On Saturday 19th May the BRLSI’s current exhibition, ID Marks of Identity, will be kept open until 8PM as part of Museums at Night. You can see the full programme here.
In 2009 the BRLSI hosted the 'Self Help' Mechanics Worldwide Conference. This was thanks to the tireless work of BRLSI members Bob Draper and Peter Ford.
Stony-iron Meteorite: Consisting of planet core and mantle materials, peridot olivine crystals in an iron-nickel matrix, there are only 61 Pallasites known. This is a small section of the first ever found: in 1772 German naturalist Peter Pallas studied a 680kg specimen found near Krasnoyarsk in the mountains of Siberia. Our small section was given to us by the antiquarian and traveller Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (1758 – 1838).