DESMA BLOG – WEEK 9 Space + Art Space and art have always been closely tied together and this week’s discussions continued to support this concept. Specifically, nanotechnology, robotics, biotechnology, and math are all connected to the study of space. Human beings have been curious about space and what lies “out there” and beyond the earth for thousands of years. In the early 1500s, Nicolaus Copernicus, an astronomer, used math to create his theory of the sun being in the center of the universe while the earth spun around the sun each day. This was hugely important in the overall understanding of our heliocentric solar system. Telescopes were invented in the 1700s. In 1996, telescopes and nanotechnology played a key role in space exploration when molecules were detected and led to the discovery of buckyballs in a crater (Vesna). Copernicus was an important figure in establishing the concept of a heliocentric solar system. Po...
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