"In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

#science #space #planetarium #history

A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Crowds flocked to see an artificial starry sky projected onto a dome

^{Allison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)}

The History of the World’s First Planetarium

#space #optics #planetarium #hackaday
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