The moon is always round – synergising arts and science by Wood Summer The moon is always round is the title of the late Prof Leong Weng Kee’s book and poem in Chinese (in Hanyu Pinyin, it is “Yue Zhang Yuan”). It showed his giftedness in synergising arts and science. The moon is there even though we cannot see it because the earth is blocking the light of the sun. When it is a full moon in fact we only see the half that is facing the earth. Since many thousands of years in both East and West civilisations, the moon has been a favourite object of many artists’ paintings, poetries, oracles, lyrics, sculptures, handicrafts, etc. The moon as earth’s only natural satellite has been a subject in the science curriculum for many hundreds of years. Today, people study the moon using telescopes and space crafts. For example, NASA’s robotic spacecraft, the Luna Reconnaissance Orbiter, has been circling the moon and sending back measurements since...
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