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The Man Who Painted the Universe : The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods by Ron Legro & Avi Lank is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Man Who Painted the Universe : The Story of a Planetarium in the Heart of the North Woods about?
As a young boy Frank Kovac Jr. fell deeply in love with stargazing, painting glow-in-the-dark constellations on his bedroom wall and inviting friends to an observatory he built in his Chicago backyard. As he reached adulthood, Kovac did not let go of his childhood dreams of reaching the stars. He began scheming to bring the universe home. While working at a paper mill as a young man, Kovac tirelessly built a 22-foot rotating globe planetarium in the woods. Despite failures and collapses, the ama
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ron Legro & Avi Lank
- Publisher
- Wisconsin Historical Society Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780870207112
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Historical Fiction, Art
- Rating
- 3.42 / 5 (29 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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