Thursday, May 23, 2013

Eric's Thursday Experience

Today I enjoyed the observatory very much. It was really quite fascinating that the large telescope we used was wooden when it looked like it was made of metal. The fact that the roof rotated in order to account for different directions was a really intelligent design. On a side note I found it very inconvenient that when we got back to Leiden, the McDonalds was "out of order".
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  1. UnknownMay 23, 2013 at 4:52 PM

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  2. UnknownMay 23, 2013 at 5:01 PM

    This is Marissa ->

    I thought that the rotating roof was quite cool as well. From a structural standpoint I thought it was a very neat and useful design. However, it seemed like for the amount of people up there I think it was slightly dangerous considering the window cranks moved with the roof and almost ended up hitting a few different people in the head.

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  3. LaurenMay 23, 2013 at 5:04 PM

    I enjoyed learning about how heavenly objects outside of the moon were thought to be perfect. I had never heard this before.

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  4. UnknownMay 23, 2013 at 11:48 PM

    the brief explanation by the guide of how the philosphers thought everything revolved around the earth was very informative.

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