Schechner, Sara Jane (Editor)
Adler Planetarium, Chicago
Physical Details: 474
Language: English
Time of Our Lives sheds light on Adler Planetarium's sundials, which are approached as historically and culturally contextualized artifacts that testify to changes in society, knowledge, aesthetics, and above all, in the deep and complex human relationship with time, which has long kept us connected to the sky above
...MoreReview Richard Dunn (2020) Review of "Time of Our Lives: Sundials of the Adler Planetarium". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 123-124).
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