Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy’
From the Collection: Dopplemayer’s “Atlas novus coelesti”
The night sky has always been a source of inspiration for art that borders on science (or maybe the other way around). Examples are as ancient as the Dunhuang Star Chart,…
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This doesn’t look like much, but it was the start of something that was going to revolutionize the field of astronomy. This is a disk of silicon dioxide, also known…
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