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

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 ...

[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 ...

An orrery, like many scientific instruments invented during the Enlightenment, is an attempt to constrain a dynamic corner of the universe—in this case, the solar system—in an orderly model.

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 ...

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.

An orrery is what you call a mechanical model of all or part of the solar system that shows the relative rotations of the planets and the sun. Many of these old-fashioned celestial models are ...

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 ...

People have tried to recreate the movements of the stars and planets since antiquity. In the 1700s, the orrery, a clockwork model of the Solar System, was developed.The word “planetarium” was ...