PUPILS will be gaining insights on how ancient people saw the heavens.
East Oxford Community Classics Centre is to host an Ancient Astronomy Day to encourage people to get into the subject.
On Tuesday the centre, based at Cheney School, will hold a fun day for pupils learning about the planets as they were seen in ancient times.
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Cheney pupil Peter Cole, 13, said: “I do Classics, and this Ancient Astronomy Day is going to really interest me too.”
The British Sundial Society will run workshops on Greek and Roman sundials, teaching pupils how to make and understand an orrery – a mechanical model of the Solar System.
Centre founder and director Dr Lorna Robinson said: “The overall aim of the day is to provide some awareness and educational activities based on ancient astronomy to engage students and the wider community in a really fascinating way.
“Pupils will be able to make their own orreries, which are easy to make and can be made of a variety of different materials.”
University of Cardiff Professor Mike Edmunds will take a session on Antikythera Mechanism, which is an ancient analogue computer designed to predict astronomical positions.
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