The Mark I Zeiss represents the beginning of modern planetaria - accurately projecting stars and their relative movements, over time, onto the inside of a dome. It was developer by Walther Bauersfeld, chief design engineer and later director of Carl Zeiss just after the first World War. Like many scientific objects, this first generation machine does not look like what became the standard shape.

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