Eichenhall Planetarium in Franeker
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The Planetarium was built between 1774 and 1781 as a dynamic mechanical scale model of the solar system as it was known at the time. Conceived and built by private citizen and wool weaver Eise Eisinga, the model was built on the ceiling and south wall of his former living/bedroom. Powered by a single pendulum clock, it sought to faithfully reproduce the positions of the Sun, Moon, Earth and five other planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). The planets orbited the Sun in real time, and the distances between them varied in proportion. The model took up the entire ceiling of the room, making it one of the precursors of ceiling and projection planetariums of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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