THEATRE STAR-GAZING
DISPLAYED IN ROOF DOME Vienna will be the first city outside Germany to have a planetarium, an apparatus by which the stars are displayed on the inside of a large dome It has bfeen ordered, and is to be ready by May. Copenhagen and New York have ordered planetariums. hut theirs will not be in operation by that month. The L.C.C. is still considering the question of providing one for London. Viennese astronomers who saw the apparatus in Germany were full of enthusiasm for their educational value —which has been frequently emphasised . They found the interest in Berlin so keen that crowds of children and students were unable to obtain admission to planetarium lectures.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)
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116THEATRE STAR-GAZING Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 20 (Supplement)
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