2023-05-10 04:14:00
The “Balcon des Etoiles” is a magical and fascinating place in Latrape on the hillsides of Volvestre. It is the observatory that welcomes everyone to take their first steps in astronomy and take the steps one by one that lead to understanding and observing the sky in a fun and instructive way. That is, “astronomy, a little, a lot, passionately”, the leitmotif of true passionate scientific graduates who share their passion while remaining accessible to everyone, children and adults alike. Accessible cultural event, such as a “Small popular University, to be taken up, under the aegis of the association “Les Pléiades”: the site receives on Friday May 12 at 9 p.m., Jean-Christophe Sanchez, Doctor of History, specialist in ‘History of Astronomy, astronomers and observatories, for a conference on “The History of astronomy, from the beginnings to the modern astronomy of our times”. The lecturer (researcher at the Framespa unit at the Jean-Jaurès University of Toulouse) can only captivate its audience, brilliantly sweeping a review and the history of cosmography and representations of the sky map, over a very wide time interval, from the Neolithic (Sunstone map of Tal Qadi) up to the map of the 21st century! Knowledge, Jean-Christophe Sanchez, defended a thesis: “Astronomy and physics in the kingdom of France in modern times: social, cultural and political history of science physics” and closer to the territory he is the author of the study “Institutionalization and standardization of astronomical sciences in Toulouse in the 18th century”. Reception from 8:45 p.m. Conference accessible and free to all: free entry. Le Balcon des étoiles also provides training courses in astronomy over one or more days.
Association Les Pleiades. Le Balcon des étoiles, Grand Rue (31 310) Latrape. And : www.les-pleiades.asso.fr.
Such. : 05 61 97 09 62.
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