Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...

[Illusionmanager] continues the orrery tradition but uses a different approach: he built a beautiful ceiling-mounted model of our Solar System without a gearing system. The mechanism that makes ...

Dallas Campbell shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Suitable for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4/GCSE, Third Level, National 4, National 5 and Higher ...

Experts at Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments are using the Grand Orrery, a centuries-old mechanical model of the solar system, to study the Revolutionary War.

The orrery measures 20.5 inches (52 centimeters) in height, 17.5 inches (44 centimeters) in width, and 22 inches (56 centimeters) in length. The model needs around 30 inches (76 centimeters) of ...

Brass drum orrery made by George Adams in c. 1789. The orrery is a model of the solar system showing planetary motion; orrerys were used from the 17th century as demonstration models and became ...

An orrery is a clockwork model of the solar system, demonstrating the machinations of the planets traveling around the sun in a sublime pattern of epicycles. A tellurion is a subset of the orrery, … ...

As with an orrery, the rings are in constant motion and the visibility of the watch’s interior mechanism only adds to what Copper calls, “a mesmerizing spectacle". Geoffrey Cooper's Geocentric ...

In this video, Brady Haran and James Hennessy examine an orrery (model of the solar system) from the 1760s that explained to the layperson how the event would occur, in an extremely miniaturized ...

The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre has announced the arrival of its newest exhibit – a beautiful and unique mechanical orrery.At five metres in diameter, the Jodrell Bank ...