Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema (Venue Partner)
40 Arts Circle Drive
Northwestern University
847 491 4000
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Georg Hartmann, Paper Astrolabe (recto), Nuremberg, 1542. Engravings glued to pasteboard and wood, with brass fittings. Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Inv. 49296. Photo: Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.
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Wednesday Feb 29 (6–7pm)
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Directions: On the south end of Northwestern University's campus, just off Sheridan Road. Free parking at NU after 4 pm weekdays and all day weekends. Near the CTA Purple Line Davis and Foster stops and the Metra Davis stop.
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Suzanne Karr-Schmidt, the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bruce Stephenson, curator at the Adler Planetarium, examine sundials, globes, astrolabes and other navigational and time-keeping devices composed from printed sheets of paper.
