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COSMOS ODYSSEY


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Ancient Egypt's mythical cosmology was reproduced by media art.

Ancient people used myths and legends to explain natural phenomena that could not be understood.
In Ancient Egypt, people believed that the world began from the darkness of the Nile River.
And it was here that the goddess of the sky, Nut, and the god of the Earth, Geb were born.
The goddess gave birth to the Sun each morning and swallowed it in the evening.
This is how the change from day to night was understood.

 

The shift from geocentrism to heliocentrism was illustrated by paying hommage to classical artworks.

There were also attempts to scientifically understand the universe.
In Ancient Greece, Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy thought that
the Sun, the Moon, and stars rotated around the Earth -
they thought that the universe was eternal, unchanging.

This image of Aristotle and Plato, ancient Greeks who pioneered the understanding of the universe,
is a tribute to ‘The School of Athens’ by Renaissance painter Raphael.

In the early 1500s, Copernicus thought that the Sun was in the center, not the Earth.
This explained the motion of the planets much more simply and clearly.
His idea shattered the old way of thinking.
It was the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.

The above image, which pays homage to the “Flammarion engraving,”
an illustration representative of medieval cosmology,
expresses the paradigm shift brought by the heliocentric theory.

 

The history of the early telescope is explained entertainingly in the format of a pop-up book.

 

 

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