Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie 2023

Session

Social Event

15 May 2023, 20:00

WestCord WTC hotel Leeuwarden

146. Builder of Heavens. The Story of Eise Eisinga who made the Greatest Planetarium of his Time

Arjen Dijkstra (Tresoar, the Frisian Library, Literary Museum and Archive)

15/05/2023, 20:00

Contributed talk

At the end of the 18th century, amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga built the largest planetarium the world had ever seen. He placed it on the ceiling of the living room of his house in Franeker, in the northern part of the Netherlands. The project took him seven years of designing, building and constructing. By the time it was nearly finished, the news about the planetarium was widespread. He...