Nine Views
Nine Views (Croatian: Devet pogleda) is an ambiental installation in Zagreb, Croatia which, together with the sculpture Prizemljeno Sunce (The Grounded Sun), makes up a consistent model of the Solar System.
Prizemljeno Sunce by Ivan Kožarić was first displayed in 1971 by the building of the Croatian National Theatre, and since then changed location a few times.[1] Since 1994 it has been situated in the Bogovićeva Street. It is simply a bronze sphere around 2 metres in diameter.
In 2004, artist Davor Preis had a two-week exhibition in the Josip Račić Exhibition Hall in Margaretska Street in Zagreb, and afterwards he placed 9 models of the planets of the Solar System around Zagreb, to complete a model of the entire solar system. The models' sizes as well as their distances from the Prizemljeno Sunce are all in the same scale as the Prizemljeno Sunce itself.[1]
Preis did this installation with very little or no publicity, so his installation isn't well known among citizens of Zagreb. On a few occasions individuals or small groups of people, particularly physics students, "discovered" that there was a model of the solar system in Zagreb.[1] One of the earliest efforts to find all of the planets was started in November 2004 on the web forum of the student section of Croatian Physics Society.[2]
The locations of the planets are as follows:
- Mercury - 3 Margaretska Street
- Venus - 3 Ban Josip Jelačić Square
- Earth - 9 Varšavska Street
- Mars - 21 Tkalčićeva Street
- Jupiter - 71 Voćarska Street
- Saturn - 1 Račićeva Street
- Uranus - 9 Siget (not at the residential building but at the garage across the street)
- Neptune - Kozari Way 48
- Pluto - Bologna Alley (underpass) - included in the installation before being demoted to dwarf planet
The system is at scale 1:680 000 000. Earth's model is about 1.9 cm in size and at 225 m distance from the sun's model, while Pluto's model is 7.7 km away from it.[3]
Gallery
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Zagreb Mercury.jpg
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Zagreb Venera 1.jpg
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Zagreb Earth.jpg
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Zagreb Mars 1.jpg
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Zagreb Jupiter 1.jpg
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Zagreb Saturn.jpg
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Zagreb Uranus.jpg
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Zagreb Neptun.jpg
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Zagreb Pluton.jpg
References
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- Web site of the project
- The photos and the locations of all "grounded planets"
- A page on virtualtourist.com about Nine Views
- An article about the Nine Views by a Zagreb local
- Photos of all the planets by members of AD Infinitum astronomical society
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- ↑ http://rasprave.fizika.org/viewtopic.php?t=1212&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
- ↑ http://astrogeo.geoinfo.geof.hr/prizsunce/
