- Product:
- Mechanical display (Copernicus Exhibitio
- Manufacturer:
- Wright
- Architonic ID:
- 4101404
- Launched:
- 1972
- Country:
- United States
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Hand-painted and silkscreened plastic, copper, brass, paper, Lucite
32.5"w x 8"d x 21.5"h
"Copernicus" was an exhibition in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the astronomer's birth and the third exhibition the Eames Office created for the IBM Corporate Exhibition Center. This unique mechanical model illustrates Copernicus' most important theory that the sun was the center of the universe, challenging the geocentric model of Ptolemy.
Literature: Eames Design, Neuhart, pg.385 illustrated.
32.5"w x 8"d x 21.5"h
"Copernicus" was an exhibition in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the astronomer's birth and the third exhibition the Eames Office created for the IBM Corporate Exhibition Center. This unique mechanical model illustrates Copernicus' most important theory that the sun was the center of the universe, challenging the geocentric model of Ptolemy.
Literature: Eames Design, Neuhart, pg.385 illustrated.