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:

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Pronađeno srce grada". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 2006-06-27. Retrieved 2012-04-11.
  2. ↑ http://rasprave.fizika.org/viewtopic.php?t=1212&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
  3. ↑ http://astrogeo.geoinfo.geof.hr/prizsunce/
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