Product Description
Chapters: Natural History Museums in Tennessee, Gray Fossil Site, Dinosaur Walk Museum, Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium, Coon Creek Science Center, Lichterman Nature Center, American Museum of Science and Energy, Frank H. Mcclung Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Gray Fossil Site is a Late Miocene-epoch assemblage of fossils located near the unincorporated town of Gray in Washington County, Northeast Tennessee, and dates from 7 to 4.5 million years BCE). The Gray Fossil Site was discovered by geologists in May 2000. They were investigating unusual clay deposits turned up during the course of a Tennessee Department of Transportation highway project to widen State Route 75 south of its intersection with Interstate 26. State Route 75 was realigned to protect the find by order of Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist, and a museum and research center at the dig operated by East Tennessee State University opened in August 2007. The current dig at the Gray Fossil Site was determined to have been the location of a semi-circular sinkhole that once harbored a pond environment over a long period of time and is now yielding the remains of the ancient plants and animals that lived, watered, and died within the then watery sinkhole. Among the many vertebrate fossils found at the Gray Fossil Site are the those of frogs, turtles and tapirs and recovered fossil records represent finds from approximately one percent of the total area of the Gray Fossil Site that has been explored --- and future fossil recovery from the entire site is projected to continue on for one hundred years. The Gray Fossil Site is also the world's largest tapir fossil find and is yielding new and rare discoveries such as the most complete skeleton of Teleoceras (an ancient rhino...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3599394 ... Read more

Product Description
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM), founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, is a museum about Ancient Egypt located at AMORC's Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. The Rosicrucian Order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities. The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM), founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, is a museum about Ancient Egypt located at AMORC's Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. The Rosicrucian Order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities. ... Read more

Product Description
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Uw-madison Geology Museum, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Grohmann Museum, Barlow Planetarium, Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, Chazen Museum of Art, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Wright Museum of Art. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The UWMadison Geology Museum (UWGM) is a geology and paleontology museum housed in Weeks Hall, in the southwest part of the University of WisconsinMadison campus. The museum's main undertakings are exhibits, outreach to the public, and research. It has the second highest attendance of any museum at the University of WisconsinMadison, exceeded only by the Chazen Museum of Art. The museum charges no admission. The museum was founded in the 19th century, and for many years resided with the earth science departments in Science Hall. After the construction of Weeks Hall in the 1970s, the museum moved to its present location in 1981. Almost 1,000 items are on display in 66 exhibits covering 3,000 square feet. Major sections are devoted to rocks and minerals, invertebrate and fish fossils, and vertebrate fossils. There are also cases of glaciers, meteorites, and fossil plants. Highlights include: Museum Director Dr. Slaughter giving a tourEvery year hundreds of school groups from around the state tour the museum, led by student guides. Staff and students at the museum also travel to schools in the area to teach children and their teachers about geology. The museum hosts periodic family events, such as the annual Open House. These sometimes have a special theme, such as the one in 2006 that focused on pterosaurs and in 2009 on the Mazon Creek fossils which includes the Tully Monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium). Wyoming digThe museum has conducted fossil digs in many Western states. The Late Cretaceo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4748609 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Nasher Museum of Art, Ackland Art Museum, Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is one of the oldest and largest planetariums in the United States having welcomed over 7 million visitors by its 60th anniversary in 2009. As a unit of the university, Morehead receives about one-third of its funding through state sources, one-third through ticket and gift sales, and one-third through gifts and grants. First opened in 1949, the planetarium was used to train Gemini and Apollo program astronauts in celestial navigation. Until the late 1990s, it contained one of the largest working Copernican orreries in the world. The facility was donated to the university by alumnus John Motley Morehead III who invested over $3 million in the facility. Morehead Planetarium opened on May 10, 1949 after seventeen months of construction. The first planetarium in the South, it was only the sixth to be built in the United States. Designed by the same architects who planned the Jefferson Memorial, the cost of its construction, more than $23,000,000 in todays dollars, made it the most expensive building ever built in North Carolina at the time. Morehead Planetarium was officially dedicated during a ceremony held on May 10, 1949. The sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium.Since Zeiss, the German firm that produced planetarium projectors, had lost most of its factories during World War II, there were very few projectors available at the time. Morehead had to travel to Sweden, where he had previously served as American ambassador, to purchase a Zeiss Model II to serve as the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=496494 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Museums in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Eaa Airventure Museum, Oshkosh Public Museum, Barlow Planetarium, Paine Art Center and Gardens. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 19. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The EAA AirVenture Museum is a museum dedicated to the preservation and display of aircraft located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin adjacent to the Wittman Regional Airport. The museum was built in 1982-83 by Paul Poberenzy and a small group of experimental aviators who wanted to display their hand-made planes. It is the only Experimental Aircraft Association museum in East Central Wisconsin. The museum's collection displays over one hundred and fifty planes. The AirVenture Museum is a key tourist attraction in Oshkosh and hosts the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh event in the summer months. The museum is open all year round with the exception of a few holidays. The museum contains a variety of planes purchased with visitor donations. Some of their airplanes include the Church Midwing, Funk B, and Monnett Moni. One of the museum's most popular planes is the Swallow OX-5. The Swallow OX-5 was designed for warfare and was built by Matty Laird. The plane, retired after eighty years of service, is used to provide rides to people coming to the museum. Visitors who have taken the plane ride offered by the museum can receive an EAA Eagle Flight Certificate and become a member of the World's Largest Logbook located in the museum. There is also a program for kids called the Young Eagle membership. The Young Eagle Program is designed for children between the ages of eight and seventeen. There are currently over one million members. Young Eagles members receive a free plane ride and a certificate of membership for life. Members also receive newsletters, information on upcoming events, and have a chance to w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5607578 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Mclaughlin Planetarium, Storyeum, Seagram Museum, the Niagara Falls Museum, Toronto Maritime Museum, Canada and the World Pavilion, Children's Own Museum, Kanawa Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The McLaughlin Planetarium is a former working planetarium whose building occupies a space immediately to the south of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, at 100 Queen's Park. Founded by a grant from philanthropist Colonel R. Samuel McLaughlin, the facility was opened to the public on October 26, 1968. It had, for its time, a state-of-the-art electro-mechanical Zeiss planetarium projector that was used to project regular themed shows about the stars, planets, and cosmology for visitors. By the 1980s the planetarium's sound-system and domed ceiling were used to display dazzling music-themed laser-light shows. The lower levels of the planetarium contained a gallery called the "Astrocentre" that featured space-related exhibits, related artifacts on the history of astronomy and was also home of the world's first commercial Stellarium Starting in 1978 there was a decline in attendance that lasted for four years while major construction was being undertaken at its sibling institution, the Royal Ontario Museum. This work also entailed the demolition of part of the Planetarium's facilities. Though attendance picked up when the adjacent Museum reopened in 1984, the Planetarium was forced to close on November 5, 1995, due to provincial budget cuts to the Museum. The Planetarium's exhibits, artifacts and theatre facilities were subsequently dismantled and dispersed. For a brief period it housed the Children's Own Museum. It is now used solely for offices and as a storage facility for the Museum. Early in 2009 the R.O.M. announced that it had so...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3464536 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Planetaria, Planetarium, Artis, Observatory of Strasbourg, American Museum of Natural History, List of Planetariums, Mclaughlin Planetarium, Expensive Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences, Griffith Observatory, Timeline of Planetariums, National Air and Space Museum, World Museum Liverpool, Glasgow Science Centre, Museum of the Rockies, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Museum of Science ... Read more

Product Description
Folded, world map of contemporary observatories and planetariums, including historic sites and meteor impact craters. Numbered sites on map correspond to information regarding the site on reverse side. Map also shows radiance data (low levels of visible to near infrared radiance at night). Insets include Europe, eastern U.S., western U.S., New England, Argentin/Chile, Japan, and photos. ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from School Science and Mathematics, published by School Science and Mathematics Association, Inc. on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1830 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Using planetarium software to teach standards-based lunar concepts.
Author: Kathy Cabe Trundle
Publication: School Science and Mathematics (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: School Science and Mathematics Association, Inc.
Volume: 103Issue: 8Page: 397(5)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Armagh Planetarium, Gosford Forest Park, Ring of Gullion Aonb, Armagh Observatory. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Armagh Planetarium is a planetarium located in Armagh, Northern Ireland close to the city centre and neighbouring Armagh Observatory in approximately fourteen acres of landscaped grounds known as the Armagh Astropark. Armagh Planetarium was established by the seventh director of Armagh Observatory, Dr. Eric Mervyn Lindsay, who, after twenty five years of effort, secured funding from local councils and the Ministry of Commerce of Northern Ireland in 1965. In the same year Patrick Moore was appointed as Director of the Planetarium to oversee its construction. The planetarium cost £70 000 to build (included in this was £12 000 for the planetariums first projector) and was opened to the public on 1 May, 1968. Since then it has undergone many alterations: the main building was extended in 1974 to incorporate the Lindsay Hall of Astronomy, and a dome was created to house a 16" (400 mm) reflecting telescope for public use, currently the largest public telescope in Ireland. In addition, in 1994 a new exhibition hall, the Eartharium, was added due to increased interest in Earth Science. The Armagh Astropark, which opened in 1994, is a scale model of the solar system and the Universe contained in the grounds of the Armagh Observatory, with scale-sized stainless steel models of the Sun and planets. Under the directorship of Terence Murtagh in the 1970s, Armagh Planetarium introduced many new technologies. Murtagh recognised the possibility of exploiting the new technology of video projectors to provide the shows special effects, eliminating entirely the need for dozens of slide projectors. Video tape recorders were very new and ra...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3321817 ... Read more

Product Description
Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Hauptbahnhof, Autostadt, Burg Neuhaus, Phæno, Planetarium Wolfsburg, Schloss Fallersleben, Rothehof, Wippermühle, Volkswagen-Arena, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Schleuse Sülfeld, Museen in Wolfsburg, Heinrich-Büssing-Haus, AutoMuseum Volkswagen, Liste der Baudenkmale in Vorsfelde, Altes Brauhaus zu Fallersleben, VfL-Stadion am Elsterweg, Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Museum, Dufttunnel, EisArena Wolfsburg, Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus, MobileLifeCampus,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Die Wolfsburg ist eine 1302 erstmals urkundlich erwähnte, mittelalterliche Niederungs- und Wasserburg, die sich später in ein Renaissance-Schloss wandelte. Sie befindet sich im östlichen Niedersachsen in der nach ihr benannten Stadt Wolfsburg, in deren Eigentum sie seit 1961 steht. Die Wolfsburg entwickelte sich aus einem Wohnturm an der Aller zu einer Wasserburg mit Festungscharakter. Im 17. Jahrhundert wurde sie zu einem repräsentativen, aber trotzdem wehrhaften Schloss, das den nordöstlichsten Vertreter der Weserrenaissance darstellt. Gründer und Erbauer war das Adelsgeschlecht derer von Bartensleben. Nach dem Aussterben ihrer Linie 1742 ging die Wolfsburg durch Erbgang an die Grafen von der Schulenburg über. Schloss Wolfsburg (Süd-West-Seite) Wolfs-Wappen SchlosseingangDer Burgname Wolfsburg deutet nicht auf eine wolfsreiche Gegend hier auf dem Vorsfelder Werder hin, auch wenn es im nahegelegenen Feuchtgebiet Drömling sicherlich Wölfe gab. Der Wolf als Namensgeber der Burg leitet sich vom Wappentier der Adelsfamilie derer von Bartensleben als Erbauer ab. Das Wappen besteht aus einem springenden Wolf über zwei Getreidegarben. Die Bezeichnung Wolf wurde a...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=504766 ... Read more

Product Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here.
++++
The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++
British Library

T031668



London : printed in the year, 1791. 32p.,plate ; 8° ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on January 31, 2002. The length of the article is 942 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Planetarium unveils heavenly vision.(Science and Technology)(Education: A new projection system is helping to launch fund-raising efforts for a new facility.)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: January 31, 2002
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: A1

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on December 10, 1998. The length of the article is 625 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Houston convoca a viaje cósmico. (inauguran nuevo planetario)(TT: Houston promotes a cosmic journey) (TA: new planetarium opens)
Author: Olivia P. Tallet
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 10, 1998
Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
Volume: v5Issue: n303Page: p21(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale ... Read more

Product Description
As educational institutions designed for a broad public of all ages, planetariums can make an important contribution to the study and appreciation of the Universe around us, particularly in urban society where we are increasingly cut off from a clear view of the night sky. To help generate interest and support for planetariums as centres for culture and education, the United Nations, as part of its International Space Year activities, is publishing this guidebook on the Planetarium: A Challenge for Educators. In this publication, the experience of people in the establishment and development of existing planetariums has been assembled in order to encourage and guide the establishment of planetariums for those who do not yet have access to these important cultural and educational facilities. Covers: 1) The Concept of a Planetarium - Development, Teaching Astronomy, Philosophy and Direction, Methods, Innovative Education Program. 2) Outline of the History of Planetaria - +25 Years, Openings-A Statistical Analysis 3) Facilities of a Modern Planetarium 4) Centre of Culture and Education 5) Observation of Satellites 6) International Planetarium Society ... Read more