the embassy of panetarium
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It took years to iron out the details and all work halted during the 1914-1918 War. But the first planetarium, in the modern sense of the word, opened in 1924 in Munich. In 1930 the first Zeiss planetarium was opened in North America in Chicago
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This is an unfinished study of the most prized gift presented to the Emperor of China by Lord Macartney on the occasion of the first British Embassy to China in 1793. The drawing is by William Alexander and shows a planetarium or orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system which illustrates the relative positions of the planets and moons. The astronomical model was one of a hoard of state-of-the-art gifts sent by King George III amounting to about £14,000, a huge sum of money in the late 18th century. Clocks, globes, aerial balloons, lenses and scientific apparatus were also presented to the Emperor, with the principal aim of exhibiting Britain as a scientifically developed, indeed technologically superior nation. These were gifts to impress the imperial court, and to win over the Emperor. Macartney’s chief imperative in visiting China was to negotiate terms of trade, to loosen Chinese regulations which limited British mercantile interests in the port of Canton and to place a permanent British ambassador there. The ceremonial exchange of gifts is depicted in a sketch by Alexander at WD 961, fol.57.