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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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This performance draws on archival sources to bring back to life the nineteenth-century astronomical magic lantern show, providing a factual and aesthetic trip through the solar system. At the heart of the piece is a series of mechanical astronomical lantern slides from the 1840s. These slides, and their representation of astronomical phenomena, produced both knowledge and wonder with light, color, and motion.