Compiled from the Performing Arts programmes* and Visual Arts exhibition records from HKADC’s Arts Yearbooks and Annual Arts Survey projects dating from 2010.

Discovering The Universe

Visual Arts

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Location

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Lee Shau Kee Library, Ping Yuan and Kinmay W Tang Gallery

Start Date

2014/08/25

End Date

2015/03/31

Art Genres / Sub-categories

Others

Location

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Lee Shau Kee Library, Ping Yuan and Kinmay W Tang Gallery

Start Date

2014/08/25

End Date

2015/03/31

Discovering The Universe

Description

Description

This exhibition shows how humans learned about our place in the universe: the development of Astronomy from ~300 BCE to the 1700s. Visiting the exhibit, one can see how scientific knowledge had developed, spread, and changed.

Arranged chronologically, it displays some of the Library’s valuable and rare books by Aristarchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Newton.

Note:This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2014" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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