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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Charting the Heavens and Telling Time\nEvent Url: h
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 elling_Time\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-11-09\nEvent Date End: 2011-11-09\n\nS
 ara Schechner\, David P. Wheatland Curator\, Collection of Historical Scie
 ntific Instruments\, Harvard University. Susan Dackerman\, Carl A. Weyerha
 euser Curator of Prints\, Division of European and American Art\, Harvard 
 Art Museums\n\nAlbrecht D&uuml\;rer's woodcuts of the northern and souther
 n skies\, created in collaboration with astronomers Johannes Stabius and C
 onrad Heinfogel\, were the first printed celestial maps and became the car
 tographic model for generations afterward. This talk will examine how 16th
 -century artists shaped not only the design of maps and scientific instrum
 ents such as sundials and globes\, but also the way people understood spac
 e and time. Followed by evening stargazing using historical and printed in
 struments.\n\nGallery talks are informal and include discussion. Limited t
 o 25 participants\; please arrive early.\n\nThis gallery talk is made poss
 ible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n\nStart t
 ime: 6pm&ndash\;7pm
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SUMMARY:Charting the Heavens and Telling Time
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