''Nine Views'' ( hr, Devet pogleda) is an ambiental
installation in
Zagreb,
Croatia which, together with the sculpture ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' (''The Grounded Sun''), comprises a scale
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.
Since 1994, it has been situated in Bogovićeva Street. It is 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
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young ...
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
Scale or scales may refer to:
Mathematics
* Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points
* Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original
* Scale factor, a number ...
as the ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' itself.
Preis did this installation with very little or no publicity, so his installation is not 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.
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 the
Croatian Physics Society.
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
Tkalčićeva Street ( hr, Tkalčićeva ulica, formally: Ivan Tkalčić Street, ) is a street in the Zagreb, Croatia city center. Extending from the vicinity of the central Ban Jelačić Square to its northern end at the Little Street ( hr, Mala ...
*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 17
*Pluto - Bologna Alley (underpass) - included in the installation before being demoted to
dwarf planet (someone has since ripped Pluto off, however the plaque remains)
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.
Gallery
Image:Kožarić - Prizemljeno sunce.jpg, Sun
Image:Zagreb Mercury.jpg, Mercury
Mercury commonly refers to:
* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:
Companies
* Merc ...
Image:Zagreb Venera 1.jpg, Venus
Image:Zagreb Earth.jpg, Earth
Image:Zagreb Mars 1.jpg, Mars
Image:Zagreb Jupiter 1.jpg, Jupiter
Image:Zagreb Saturn.jpg, Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth; h ...
Image:Zagreb Uranus.jpg, Uranus
Image:Zagreb Neptun.jpg, Neptune
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the farthest known planet in the Solar System. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 times ...
Image:Zagreb Pluton.jpg, Pluto
See also
*
Monument to the Sun, a Solar System model in Zadar, Croatia
References
External links
Web site of the projectThe photos and the locations of all "grounded planets"Complete guide with maps, public transportation and pictures
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2004 works
Culture in Zagreb
Croatian art
Space art
Solar System models