History Behind the Unique Windmills

History of Windmills

In point of fact, the windmill was first used in Persia in the 7th century. Then the windmill spread throughout Europe. In the Netherlands itself, first windmill used around the 13th century. At the moment, there are still many locations in the Netherlands, which are still under water. By using the existing windmills in windmill building, the water is in the soil Netherlands diverted, channeled and contained so we can see when there is not much water here.

Further, the ground is still a little wet dried with windmills. With the advent of technology and architecture development, the use of windmills also been expanded. Around the 17th century, a revolution occurred in many European countries. Because of these factors, people in the Netherlands use windmills for other interests.

Not only used as a tool to divert and hold water, windmills also be used as one means of assistants in agriculture and industry. Windmills indeed played a significant role in many areas of the country.

Despite all the windmills in the Netherlands almost look the same, in fact there are various types of these windmills. According to its function, windmills divided into two types namely the interest of industrial windmills and windmills for water distribution.
Windmills for industry interests are varied, and they are named according to their use, eg windmills for sawing (sawmill ed.) Or windmills for grinding corn (cornmill ed.).
Type the old windmill is a windmill standard (standaardmolen or postmill in her English). These windmills can capture and remove a lot of wind, and especially with windmills installed in it, can help the process of water removal and drying faster.

Therefore, this type of windmill can be found in the center of the Netherlands, because very useful for wind and water removal process. There are still many other types of windmills, like for example a small windmill (wipmolen, ed.) And windmill tower (torenmolen, ed.)
Many uses of a windmill .. At first, windmills are used to assist the process of irrigating, grinding harvest, and sometimes also used as a means of information: if members of the family of the deceased owner windmill, windmill deviate from the position normally. Function of windmills now been increased, not only as a tourist attraction, windmills also have a wide range of uses, among others, to divert water and wind, wood polish, produce paper, removing oil from the seeds, etc..

Maintenance and renewal is done in some parts, like at the mill, or the roof. Windmill parts need to be renewed every 30 years, the roof every 60 years and parts are made from wood should be replaced every 10-20 years.
"In the treatment, a windmill does require a lot of time and requires approximately 7000 euros a year. But only 4000 euros which can be provided by the government and some donors for this windmill, "said Henk Berends, an expert in building windmills.

Exposure above illustrates clearly that the windmill is one of the products due to technological developments wheel revolution. [7] ancient windmill that was first developed in Persia was the forerunner of the modern windmill technology development. Could reap the debate about the shape of a horizontal windmill in the Islamic world and the vertical windmills in the Western world. But according to our argument, the discovery of windmills in Europe, especially the Netherlands is not independent, but rather are the result of the diffusion of technology from Asia Minor (Persia). Associated with different forms we argue that the existing windmills in Europe has been innovating and construction was completed. Axis direction can be adjusted eg by wind. Similarly, the wings can be adjusted according to the wind because of the swift development of technology and architecture. Historian Joseph Needham also wrote "windmill history really begins by Islamic culture" (Joseph Needham, 1986. Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering. Taipei: Caves Books Ltd. Vol 4). Given the vulnerable time when the first windmill appeared in Europe in the 12th century and 13th century Dutch first use. Joseph Needham thinks that "it is clearly spreading towards the west of the Iberian formerly derived from the Spanish Muslims". It refers to the diffusion of innovation

theory, popularized by Everett Rogers about how new ideas and technologies spread in a culture [8]. We argue that from Iran and Afghanistan windmill is slow spread widely throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, and later spread to China and India. Later in the period of the Crusades windmills spread to Europe.

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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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