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In his last deed he chose the site atop Mount Hamilton, [4] and was buried there in 1887 under the future site of the telescope, [2] with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, "Here lies the body of James Lick". [5] Layout of the Lick Observatory. The dome housing the 91-centimeter (36-inch) Great Lick refractor telescope is on the right.
It grew from one single lot to a 5-acre city block. [1] The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum was built in 1932, the Planetarium in 1936, the research library opened in June 1939. The Akhenaton Shrine was built in 1949. [2] The Peace Garden was added to the park in 2004 and dedicated by Rosicrucian Imperator Christian Bernard. In 2013, a new Alchemy ...
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) is devoted to ancient Egypt, located at Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. It was founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). The Rosicrucian order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities.
Rosicrucian Park Planetarium. The neighborhood surrounds and is named for the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, a 5 + 1 ⁄ 2-acre (22,000 m 2) park with thousands of rose bushes. The Rose Garden is of one of San Jose's oldest neighborhoods outside of the 18th and 19th century downtown core around the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. Several ...
Palomar College Planetarium, San Marcos; Planetarium Projector and Science Museum, [19] a museum of planeteria at Big Bear Lake; Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, a purpose-built planetarium rendered in an Ancient Egyptian architectural style; San Diego City College Planetarium, San Diego; Hartnell College Planetarium, Salinas
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Hotel Santa Ysabel on the road up Mt. Hamilton just across Smith Creek in 1895, Courtesy of San Jose Public Library, California Room. On August 26, 1861, while working for Josiah D. Whitney on the first California Geological Survey, William H. Brewer invited local San Jose preacher (and Brewer's personal friend) Laurentine Hamilton to join his company on a trek to a nearby summit.
The Rosicrucian Park planetarium opens in San Jose, California. It is the fifth built in the United States, and one of the first to have a star projector built in the US, [citation needed] constructed by hand by H. Spencer Lewis, then leader of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. 1937: Osaka planetarium opens, Seymour Planetarium dedicated. [2] 1938