Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (397)
About a Defunct Astronomical Observatory
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
On November 11, 2022
I visited an exceptional exhibition made by Zeppelin Design, the Romanian Order of Architects and the National Library of Romania (host), dedicated to Batthyaneum, a cultural complex containing a library (still active) and an astronomical observatory (active between the 1790s and the 1860s), created by the Magyar bishop Ignac Batthyany in Alba Iulia (the capital city of the Principality of Transylvania during Hungarian rule and now the historical capital city of the Great Union of Romanians).
Since on that day
Bucharest was under the clouds,
I had to
enter the spirit of the Batthyaneum Observatory
and look at the sky from its era
through its old instruments.
#poetry