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A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.
Inside a planetarium projection hall. (Belgrade Planetarium, Serbia)
Inside the same hall during projection. (Belgrade Planetarium, Serbia)
A reconstruction of Archimedes' planetarium at the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, in Athens, Greece.
The world's first planetarium projector, Zeiss Mark I, 1923
Archimedes
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Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his s
Planetarium
…headset for a 3D representation. The term planetarian is used to describe a member of the professional staff of a planetarium. The ancient Greek polymath Archimedes is attributed with creating a primitive planetarium device that could predict the movements of the Sun and the Moon and the planets. The discovery of…
Archimedes Thoughtful (1620)
Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1805) by Benjamin West
Front page of Archimedes' Opera, in Greek and Latin, edited by David Rivault (1615)
Ostomachion is a dissection puzzle found in the Archimedes Palimpsest