[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 ...
DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.
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 ...
making it tricky to model mechanically. The moon also has a 5.15 degree inclination, but since that’s hard to notice at this scale, the LEGO orrery exaggerates it. So, the Moon’s track has its ...