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  2. Orrery - Wikipedia

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    Orrery. A small orrery showing Earth and the inner planets. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; however, since accurate scaling is often ...

  3. Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery - Wikipedia

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    He inherited the estate in 1714. An orrery, a model of the Solar System named after the 4th Earl of Orrery. Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical Solar System model that could demonstrate proportional motion of the planets around the Sun.

  4. A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 1473 mm × 2032 mm (58 in × 80 in) Location. Derby Museum and Art Gallery [1], Derby, England. A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, or the full title, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, is a 1766 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting a lecturer giving a demonstration ...

  5. Solar System model - Wikipedia

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    A 1766 Benjamin Martin mechanical model, or orrery, on display at the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed ...

  6. Eise Eisinga Planetarium - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium (Dutch: Koninklijk Eise Eisinga Planetarium) is an 18th-century orrery in Franeker, Friesland, Netherlands. It is currently a museum and open to the public. The orrery has been on the top 100 Dutch heritage sites list since 1990. In September 2023, it received the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ 2 ]

  7. John Fulton (instrument maker) - Wikipedia

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    John Fulton. John Fulton (1803–1853) was a Scottish instrument maker who originally trained as a cobbler. [1] He built three orreries in a workshop attached to at his home, now demolished, in the Kirton Brae area of Fenwick [2] and was eventually appointed instrument maker to King William IV, moving to London, but retiring to Fenwick. He is ...

  8. Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork - Wikipedia

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    Rev. Hon. Richard Cavendish Boyle (28 February 1812 – 30 March 1886), chaplain to Queen Victoria, married Eleanor Vere Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon and had issue. In Somerset, he lived at Marston House within the grounds of Marston Bigot Park. He employed Jeffry Wyattville in 1817 to embellish the central block with four Ionic columns.

  9. Kepler orrery - Wikipedia

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    The third and latest installment of the mesmerizing Kepler Orrery videos by Daniel Fabrycky from the Kepler science team. It shows the relative sizes of the orbits and planets in the multi-transiting planetary systems discovered by Kepler up to November 2013 (according to the Kepler site, 3,538 candidates so far.)