Latitude Exhibition_The Van de Veldes The light from the star

The light from the star Polaris that I used to calibrate my mount was made in the lifetime of those on the voyage as it is just over 400 light years away

One container was filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego

Stefan Liebermann

I could only wonder how ancient civilisations must have felt without any knowledge of what was actually going on

comets and moons

Latitude Exhibition_The Van de Veldes The light from the starThree hundred years ago, no one knew the true shape of the world. Author: Nicholas Crane It wasn't a sphere but did it bulge at the equator or was it pointed at the poles? Until we found out no map could ever be truly accurate. So a team of scientists was sent to South America to measure one full degree of latitude. But South America was a land of erupting volcanoes, sodden rainforests, earthquakes, deadly diseases, tropical storms and violent unrest.