The Eisinga Planetarium: It Koe Minder! | Odd Salon CONTRAPTION 6/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 20/08/2018

18th century Frisian wool-comber and self-taught astronomer Eisa Eisinga built a working planetarium in the living room ceiling of his canal house, hoping to use science to defuse a pre-apocalyptic panic. His six month side project became an eight year long obsession, and despite civil war, exile, and tragedy, it became his life’s work, and his legacy. The Royal Eise Eisinga Planetariumsurvives now as the oldest working orrery in the world.

Lynne Rutter ~ The Eisinga Planetarium: It Koe Minder!

Odd Salon CONTRAPTION: Stories of mad makers & ingenious inventors; marvelous machinery, implements of wonder & infernal devices

Recorded live 8/7/2018 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by John Adams
Edit, Camera, Post production: John Adams
Assistant Camera and Switching: Marcus Marchesseault
Sound: Steen
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