Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

Understanding the transition of the view of the universe is important significance in learning astronomy, but there are few teaching materials or workshops prepared compared to those who learn knowledge of astronomy. It is useful to touch historical documents about astronomy. The promotion of digital archives in recent years provides this opportunity. In a class on the history of astronomy at the university, using digital archives, students searched for a diagram of the solar system drawn in historical documents about astronomy in Japan and conducted a task to consider how it differs from real solar system. Using digital archives may make students understand how the heliocentric theory has flowed into Japan and the transition of the view of the universe deeper than simple lecture.

About Tamazawa Harufumi

Tamazawa Harufumi is a researcher at Kyoto University and Kyoto City University of Arts. HIs research interest include science communication and history about astronomy and space science, and Interdisciplinary research about universe and space science, including fine arts.

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