Latin Day 2002

Display/Project Ideas:

• Major figures and discoveries in the the history of astronomy (ancient and modern)
• Latin and Greek scientific authors (see infra p. 11)
• Ancient (and modern) astrology
• The planets (called by Hyginus stellae erraticae)
• The ancient roots of space travel (there's a trip to the moon in Lucian's Vera Historia)
• How to cast a horoscope
• Star signs of (in)famous persons
• Other constellations (and myths) outside the Zodiac
• Celestial cartography (star maps)
• The naming of newly discovered celestial objects
• Modern myths about space
• Cosmology (the origin of the universe)
• Solar, lunar and stellar phenomena in history (eclipses, comets, etc.)
• The relative movement of celestial bodies (ecliptic, horizon, etc.)
• The Latin of Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton