Boazum
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Boazum is a Frisian village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân, Netherlands with an approximate population of 397 in January 2017. The Boazum church is an example of romanesque twelfth-century arc
St Martin's church
Farm in Boazum
Former bakery (1965)
Houses in Boazum (1965)
Eise Eisinga
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Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Frisian astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the w
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…of May 1774, and about the Possible and Likely Astronomical and Physical Consequences of this Conjunction from 1774 was long said to have motivated Eise Eisinga to build his famous planetarium. According to the canonicised view, Alta stated that the upcoming conjunction of the planets with the sun would herald…
![Portrait by Willem Bartel van der Kooi [nl] (1827)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Franeker._Stadhuis._03-08-2021._%28actm%29_02.jpg/500px-Franeker._Stadhuis._03-08-2021._%28actm%29_02.jpg)
Portrait by Willem Bartel van der Kooi [nl] (1827)
The orrery he built in his living room
The brick building housing the orrery in Franeker in the Netherlands