Boazum
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| Littenseradiel | |
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| Country | Netherlands |
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| Province | Friesland |
| Area (2006) | |
| - Total | 132.57 km² (51.2 sq mi) |
| - Land | 130.74 km² (50.5 sq mi) |
| - Water | 1.84 km² (0.7 sq mi) |
| Population (1 January 2007) | |
| - Total | 10,869 |
| - Density | 83/km² (215/sq mi) |
| Source: CBS, Statline. | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| - Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
Boazum (Dutch: Bozum) is a Frisian village in the rural municipality of Littenseradiel with an approximate population of 400. It is one of the first described communities in Friesland. The Boazum church is an example of romanesque twelfth-century architecture and possesses an Ottonian fresco portraying a beardless Christ.
A famous Boazumer (although mainly by proxy) was the reverend Eelco Alta (1723-1798), whose treatise Philosophical Considerations concerning the Conjunction of the Planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. To be happening on the Eighth of May 1774, and about the Possible and Likely Astronomical and Physical Consequences of this Conjunction[1] from 1774 was long said to have motivated Eise Eisinga to build his famous planetarium. Alta stated that the upcoming conjunction of the planets with the sun would herald the apocalypse, and through his planetarium, Eisinga was able to prove that in fact, the conjunction would not take place.
[edit] References
- ^ [Eelco Alta. Philosophische Bedenkingen over de Conjunctie van de Planeten Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercurius en de Maan. Op den Agtsten May 1774. staande te gebeuren, en wel over de Mogelyke en Waarschynelyke Sterre en Natuurkundige Gevolgen deezer Conjunctie. Boazum, 1774.]
[edit] External links
- Alta's treatise in PDF format (Digital Library of Friesland)
- Zicht op Bozum (old photographs; in Dutch).
