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SUMMARY:The view from here\, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in 
 the planetarium and in the solar system - Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris)
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CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:The projection planetarium has probably been the most importan
 t single device for communicating astronomy since the early 20th century. 
 I look at the ways in which early planetariums encouraged the rehearsal by
  spectators of different spatial positions and bodily relationships with r
 egards to (models of) the solar system. Acquiring a proper understanding o
 f the solar system did not simply require participants to adopt 'the view 
 from nowhere' but involved a spatial\, physical and sensory journey throug
 h multiple viewpoints that often also rehearsed an idealised history of as
 tronomy. Widely praised for its illusionistic rendering of the night skies
 \, the modern planetarium was also a showcase for the precision technology
  of its maker Carl Zeiss\, offering an experience simultaneously of simula
 ted Nature\, of astronomy and of technological mastery. Astronomy\, the qu
 intessential science of space and time\, afforded in the planetarium an oc
 casion for reflecting in broader ways on individuals' and humans' place in
  the modern world. Planetariums may be understood as materializing and pro
 moting particular epistemological and pedagogical conceptions of the knowi
 ng subject\; while they partook in the collective reflection on Nature\, s
 cience and technology in modernity.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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