Consider (); Cadastre per Aspera

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After over two hundred years of the growth of urban lighting, most city-dwellers would be lucky to see more than a dozen stars at night. Yet for millennia prior,stars were of great cultural, mystical and practical significance to people in fields as varied as medicine, agriculture, navigation, and divination. Bruce Quek’s presentation composed of insights accumulated through his long term research about light pollution in many cities of the world, posed the question: what if the tendency to project meaning onto the stars did not simply vanish once we were unable to see them, but grafted onto the artificial lights which supplanted them?