Eames Office Oral Histories: Harvard Professor Owen Gingerich on working with Charles Eames

Charles and Ray Eames sought out top experts to collaborate on their exhibitions. For COPERNICUS, they engaged the services of Owen Gingerich, an emeritus professor of astronomy and the history of science at Harvard University and an emeritus senior astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He is a leading authority on the 16th-century Polish cosmologist Nicholas Copernicus and the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler. In this Eames Office Oral History excerpt, Professor Gingerich tells a story of accompanying Charles to photograph an original Copernicus manuscript.