[FRIAM] st john's

[Frank Wimberly]

Jonathan,

You might try to contact John Balwit as a starting point.  (503) 583-2181

Frank

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On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 9:58 AM Jonathan Wolfe <jonathan at fractalfoundation.org>
wrote:

> There was a nice piece in the news the other day about this armillary
> sphere which seems like a very beautiful scientific artwork at St Johns.
>
> https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2019-12-31/new-devise-in-new-mexico-turns-back-clock-on-astronomy
> I’d very much like to pay a visit and see this device, which, while it
> doesn’t contribute much scientifically to the astronomical community, it’s
> one heck of an artistic and historical project. I love the aesthetics of
> armillary spheres, and the visionary role they’ve played for so long,
> showing us our place in the heavens.
>
> I have a pet art project in mind called the “Galactic Observatory” that
> builds off this tradition, which is a galactic pointer that rotates slowly
> with the earth’s turning to constantly point at the center of the Milky Way
> galaxy, allowing us to orient ourselves to a larger scale. It’s the logical
> evolution from the geocentric to the heliocentric to the galactocentric
> reference frame. It was only just over 100 years ago that we discovered
> where we sit in the Milky Way, and hey, we’re not in the center of it all
> (and a good thing we’re not, too!)
> I would love to meet the folks responsible for creating the St John’s
> armillary sphere; maybe they’ll have an interest in helping see a next
> generation modern updated astronomical sculpture come to life too...
>
>
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> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 6:05 AM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've heard about it from our friend John Balwit, who may have some
>> responsibility for it.
>>
>> Frank
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>> Frank Wimberly
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>>
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>>
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>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 5:45 AM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just read that St. John's has the only working Armillary Sphere  on
>>> Earth.  have you all checked it out?
>>>
>>> davew
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