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Orrery   /ˈɔrəri/   Listen
Orrery

noun
(pl. orreries)
1.
Planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock.





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"Orrery" Quotes from Famous Books



... books, is to be found in Thackeray's English Humorists, and a closer study of the man and his works in Leslie Stevenson's "Swift," in Morley's English Men of Letters. The other biographies of him are: Lord Orrery Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, 1751; Hawkes, on his life, 1765; Sheridan's life, 1785; Forster's life, 1875 (unfinished); Henry Craik's life (1882). The best edition of Swift's writings and correspondence is that edited ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift


Words linked to "Orrery" :   planetarium


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