From Planetarium to Planetary Temple — Re-Imagining Cosmic Spaces
Humanity has always built spaces to encounter the planets — from the two-millennia-old Navagraha temples of southern India (circa 100 BCE), to Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg observatory – an alchemical laboratory (circa 1576 CE) in Denmark, to the modern planetarium (1925 CE), the West’s most recent iteration of this ancient tradition. This article contemplates a ‘new […]
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