Imagining the Extraordinary: The Heavens

In a symposium on scientific illustration from the Renaissance to the digital age, historians specializing in the scientific illustrations of the Renaissance with contemporary scientists, technologists and artists to explore the longstanding relationship between science and illustration. On day one, the morning panel focused on "the heavens."

Speaker Biography: Kimberly Arcand is visualization lead for NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Speaker Biography: Pedro Raposo is curator of Adler Planetarium's Webster Institute for the History of Astronomy.

Speaker Biography: Roger Gaskell is an antiquarian book specialist in medical and technical books. He teaches courses in bibliography and book illustration in Cambridge, Oxford and Charlottesville, Virginia.