Sentences with phrase «point modern astronomy»

Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy's most famous telescope.

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Around Dec. 1, 1609, Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei pointed a telescope at the moon and created modern astronomy.

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

This exhibition joins three important contemporary artists who have each incorporated reminiscences of Pollock into their works in very different ways: Thomas Demand's work Barn, is a photograph of a paper reconstruction based on the mythical barn used by Pollock as a painting studio; Peter Doig's painting, Daytime Astronomy, takes as its starting point a central figure lying in the grass in an open landscape - the figure is based on a photograph by Hans Namuth of Pollock lying in the same position; while Andreas Gursky's work Untitled VI is a photograph of a Pollock painting hanging in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.