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COSMOS explores our changing relationship with the stars. This publication offers an intriguing dialogue between scientific objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contemporary artworks. It demonstrates how imagination – both in art and science – drives our cosmological awareness and helps us grasp the vast, infinite story of the universe. 

This publication presents (scientific) illustrations, instruments and astrophotography by George & Dudley Adams, William Blake, Johann Elert Bode, John F. W. Herschel, William Herschel, Loewy & Puiseux, Hartog van Laun, Warren de la Rue, and Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, in relation with contemporary artworks by Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Vincent Verhoef.