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April 16, 2026

Michael's Friday of Awesome - The oldest working planetarium in the world

Eise Eisinga built the world's oldest working planetarium at home | THE WORLD OF INTERIORS

In the 1770s, a star-gazing wool carder in the northern Netherlands made a pendulum-powered planetarium above his box bed


Humbled by this introduction “ … handmade by a prosperous wool carder in the 1770s above his living-room ceiling.” and awestruck by what he built #awesome


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