Exhibitions
Discovering the Universe 探索宇宙
This exhibition shows how humans learned about our place in the universe: the development of Astronomy from ~300 BCE to the 1700s. Visiting the exhibit, one can see how scientific knowledge had developed, spread, and changed.
Arranged chronologically, it displays some of the Library’s valuable and rare books by Aristarchus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Newton.
De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber (1572)
Aristarchus of Samos (circa 310–230 BC)
Almagestum seu Magnae constructionis mathematicae opus plane diuinum (1528)
Claudius Ptolemy (circa 90-168)
De revolutionibus orbium cælestium (1617)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica (1726)
Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
Isaaci Newtoni opera quæ exstant Omnia (1779)
Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
Event Details:
Dates
25 Aug 2014 - 16 Jan 2015
Location
The Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce Ko Pui Shuen Gallery
Course