Georg Joachim Rheticus

Speaker(s): Dennis Danielson
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Length: 1:17:46
Product ID: RGDL3700C

Purchase Options:

MP3 Download - $5.00
CD - $10.00

Description

This lecture was given as a part of the 2007 Regent College Winter Term Evening Public Lecture Series.

See All Audio by Dennis Danielson

Dennis Danielson is Professor and Associate Head of English at UBC. Upon completing a BA at the University of Victoria (1972) he studied Intellectual History at Sussex (MA, 1973) and English Literature at Oxford and Stanford (PhD, 1979). After beginning his career at the University of Ottawa he took up a tenured position at UBC in 1986. Danielson has served in the Faculty of Arts as chair of the Curriculum Committee, chair of the UBC Essay Competition, member of the Dean's Tenure and Promotion Committee, and pioneer member of Foundations, an interdisciplinary integrated First Year program. He has also acted as a freelance critic on traffic and the environment at UBC. He is actively engaged in research linking the humanities and the sciences, and his work on the history of cosmology has recently received attention in both scientific and popular media. For the year 2002 he is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Related Audio

Details / Buy

2014 Evening Public Lectures

Speaker: Alan Torrance, Bruce Hindmarsh, David Lyon, … (see details for all)

Details / Buy

Choose Freedom

Speaker: Dennis Danielson, Iain Provan, John Stackhouse, … (see details for all)

Details / Buy

Christian Thought and Culture II: The Disenchantment of the World: Modernity, Secularity, Naturalism

Speaker: Bruce Guenther, Bruce Hindmarsh, Craig Gay, … (see details for all)

Details / Buy

God, Science & the Meaning of Life: C. S. Lewis and Richard Dawkins.

Speaker: Alister McGrath, Arnold Sikkema, Dennis Danielson

Details / Buy

He Made the Heavens and the Earth: A Personal Reflection (Chapel Talk)

Speaker: Dennis Danielson

Details / Buy

Paradise Lost and the Purpose of the Universe

Speaker: Dennis Danielson

Details / Buy

Roundtable Talk: The Bible and the Emergence of Modern Science

Speaker: Bruce Hindmarsh, Peter Harrison

Details / Buy

The Book of the Cosmos (CTC II Winter 2006)

Speaker: Dennis Danielson