July 2012
Beginner
176 pages
7h 48m
English
Dan Krause’s home science museum.
If you’re looking for Dan Krause, take the first driveway after the sun. The yellow sphere, ten feet from the road and roughly the size of a large exercise ball, is part of an orrery — a scale model of the solar system — that once stretched for two miles across neighboring fields, backyards, and conservation lands.
Drive in and you’ll find an assortment of precise scientific curiosities that spill out of his home, across the surrounding landscape, and into adjacent outbuildings. Krause has filled his property in Amherst, Mass., with handmade devices that explore his lasting love affair with physics, mathematics, astronomy, and time.
Dr. Daniel Krause, ...