Eclipse Ziqi Yang

Based on the life of 18th century Chinese woman astronomer, Wang Zhenyi who in a young girl's dream accompanies the astronomer to watch a lunar eclipse. The astronomer challenges a magician exploiting an audience to believe that he controls this divine phenomenon and is attacked by the crowd who want her arrested. They are unready to accept a woman in science.

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SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS

 Astronomy

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Feature Films

A science focused teaching framework for short and feature films, all of which have received awards from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their depictions of scientific themes or characters.