Reysa Bernson, the unconventional head of the first French planetarium

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contents The first modern planetarium was presented in 1923 in Jena, Germany. Very soon in the subsequent years, planetariums were installed in other parts of Europe as well as in America. France, however, got its first planetarium only in 1937, for the World Exhibition organized in Paris. The team that took care of that planetarium was headed by a female amateur astronomer named Reysa Bernson. This choice might seem surprising, but it was not made at random, thanks to her never-ending astronomical activities at that time. This paper aims to bring back memories of this very active amateur astronomer of the 1920s and 1930s, and show the many ways in which astronomy was disseminated a century ago.
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Naze, Yael
History and Philosophy of Physics
Popular Physics
The first modern planetarium was presented in 1923 in Jena, Germany. Very soon in the subsequent years, planetariums were installed in other parts of Europe as well as in America. France, however, got its first planetarium only in 1937, for the World Exhibition organized in Paris. The team that took care of that planetarium was headed by a female amateur astronomer named Reysa Bernson. This choice might seem surprising, but it was not made at random, thanks to her never-ending astronomical activities at that time. This paper aims to bring back memories of this very active amateur astronomer of the 1920s and 1930s, and show the many ways in which astronomy was disseminated a century ago.
title Reysa Bernson, the unconventional head of the first French planetarium
topic History and Philosophy of Physics
Popular Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02464