🌍 Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker

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The Eisinga Planetarium is an orrery in Franeker, Netherlands, that demonstrates planetary motion through an 18th-century mechanical apparatus. Built between 1774 and 1781 by wool merchant and amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga in his own living room, it remains the world's oldest continuously operating orrery and was inscribed as a UNESCO ...