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| The Royal Eise-Eisinga Planetarium |
Between 1774 and 1781, the Dutch amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga built a movable model of the solar system.
To make it fit in his living room, Eisinga, who earned his living in the textile trade as a wool comber, used a scale of 1:1,000,000,000: one millimetre to one million kilometres.
The model is still in its original state and is open to the public all year round.
The Dutch World Heritage Sites
- Lower Germanic Limes
- Dutch Water Conservation Line
- Colonies of Mercy in Drenthe and Friesland
- Wadden Sea
- Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht
- Beemster polder
- Woudagemaal steam pumping station near Lemmer in Friesland
- Schokland nature reserve
- Noordoostpolder in Flevoland province
- the canals of Amsterdam and, the windmills of Kinderdijk-Elshout.
The Kingdom of the Netherlands includes another UNESCO site, the historic centre of Willemstad on Curaçao, an autonomous country within the Kingdom.
* Simone Sagi at ssagi@holland.com
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