Friday, March 13, 2026

Dr Mary Bruck's interest in the Penllergare Observatory

In view of the upcoming lecture by Stuart Hemsley-Rice on the historic Equatorial observatory at Penllergare Valley Woods, I reproduce here a presentation I gave a number of years ago about the late Dr Mary Bruck, Irish astronomer, astrophysicist and historian of science who I came to know though correspondence about the Penllergare Observatory:

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The late Dr John Birks did indeed publish an article on the Penllergare Observatory in the Antiquarian Astronomer. This is from the title page:







Steve Wainwright

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