December 10, 2018, 6:15–8 p.m.
Registration is not required.
How does our perception of the night sky change depending on its astronomical description? Is what we see contingent on the particular cosmology? As part of the lecture series “The Nature of Perception – the Art of Deception” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the physicist Dr. Stefan Zieme provides insights into aspects of astronomy in antiquity, the Renaissance, and the early modern period.
The talk will focus on the question of whether and how seeing and evidence are connected to astronomical models. It subsequently will compare the historical cosmologies with the understanding of space and time as proposed in the general theory of relativity.
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