orrery

• Those scales and labels eliminate any doubt: we've got a crank-driven, precisely geared bronze orrery. —  MAKE Magazine
• But this is an eccentric model for a solar system, like pieces from an immense orrery - one of those 18th century machines made to mimic the universe - broken and scattered on some abandoned city square. —  New Haven Independent
• And they constructed a government as they would have constructed an orrery,--to display the laws of nature. —  The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
• Let us look at them a little closer I followed Gazen along the gangway which encircled the orrery, and allowed us to survey each of the planets closer at hand This kind of place would make a good theatre for a class in astronomy," said I, "or for the meetings of the Interplanetary Congress of Astronomers, in the year 2000. —  A Trip to Venus
• I was compelled, like John Phoenix, to manufacture my own orrery, and I did it with a lump of frozen, tallow to represent the earth, a chunk of black bread for the moon, and small pieces of dried meat for the lesser planets. —  Tent Life in Siberia

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