Eise Eisinga Planetarium Franeker, Frisland Netherlands

Macrocosmos and Microcosmos
The two elements that make us amazed at the greatness of God.
Micro and macro world make us feel increasingly smaller, a lot of things outside of ourselves that we do not know and unattainable.
Eise Eisinga Planetarium, founded by Eise in 1781.Ia dedicate every inch of her home for the planetarium.
Sunny day in the month of September 2012, we visited the planetarium.
It's amazing ...
Since its founding, planetary movements and their moons around the sun that is placed in the living room Eise never wrong.
Nearly three centuries ago, and he was able to create such a complete planetarium.

The planetarium is located in Franeker, Frisland. A city that reached by train for about 1 hour of Groningen and almost 2 hours of using the car.
Franeker is the birthplace of the city's oldest university in the Netherlands, Universiteit Franeker. But somehow this university then closed, and appeared as a Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands oldest university that still exists.


Eise Eisingan is an amateur astronomer who built his house himself planetarium in Franeker (Friesland). The planetarium is currently recognized as the oldest planetarium in the world.

Eisinga very talented not allowed to enter Latin School because he expected to be processing wool cloth as his father. Of their own accord, he menenggalamkan himself in the study of the principles of mathematics and astronomy. Franeker Academy locations are fairly close match with their interests.

In 1774, a leaflet was published that it is a prophecy about the earth that will come out of its orbit due to a collision between the moon and other planets. The forecast caused panic in Friesland incredible. To show the public not to panic, Eisinga decided to build a model solar system in the ceiling of his living room. In 1781 completed his planetarium.

Like most men of his time, Eisinga inspired by the flow of the Enlightenment. They believe that science can improve the quality of human life and society. Enlightenment thinkers in the Netherlands have different properties with their counterparts in France. Live in the country without a church plenipotentiary ruler or ruling without making absolute fraction of the Dutch sympathetic to some who held radical French philosophes and anti church.

They believe that God wants the best for this world: God created all things for the sake of the establishment of a friendly and harmonious society. Therefore, they indulged in a pleasant social interaction. Together with other residents of the care they perform various physics experiments, examined the fossils, discuss solving various social problems and studying the human body.

Even now Eisinga planetarium shows the position of the planets are still valid, because the models it takes a planet to orbit the sun the same as the real planets: Mercury takes 88 days to orbit, Earth and Saturn 365 days for 29 years. All of this is done through movement mechanisms amazing machine made ​​of wood ring and disc with ten thousands of his nails as serrations. A pendulum clock and nine weights move its mechanism serrations.


When King William I visited Friesland in 1818 to see the planetarium, was so 

Visit the macrocosm in the form of an old planetarium and museum that presents a history, just bring us the awareness, life is now one of them is formed by a past life. There are things that should be passed as a message to the next generation.





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