Abstract
The Epilogue describes what happened with the observatory after the American scientists left, not imagining there was another chapter yet to be told for American Science in the south. Although there is no direct relationship, it connects this story to the further development in Astronomy, in the 1960s Chile, and sets the difference between how societies dealt with science in the early twentieth century, and then in the global sixties. Through the epilogue it is clear how this history of an observatory in the early twentieth century has much to say on the north-south approach. By analyzing this unique experience, and connecting it with the further development of astronomy in the sixties, we can open perspectives to understand the complexity of science and international relations.
This section is based in the research of the FONDECYT project num. 3170099, PI Bárbara Silva, Stars and Galaxies from the South: Chile and Its Scientific—Astronomical Insertion in the Global Cold War , 1962–1973.
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Silva, B.K. (2019). Epilogue: Transnational Mirrors for the Stars. In: Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17712-6_6
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