Definition of Orery
Orrery is a mechanical toy which exhibits, by an arrangement of
rods, balls, and toothed wheels, the sun, the planets, and their moons,
all performing their respective motions; so named after the Earl of
Orrery, for whom Charles Boyle made the first one in 1715.
- Wikipedia
Or"re*ry (?), n.; pl.
Orreries (#). [So named in honor of the Earl of
Orrery.] An apparatus which illustrates, by the
revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic
motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar
system.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a clockwork model of the solar system
*1985: To which his answer was: why, that God is eternal motion, Lacy. This is his first orrery. — John Fowles, A Maggot
*1997: Ethelmer for a split second is gazing straight up into her nostrils, one of which now flares into pink illumination as Pitt's Taper sets alight the central Lanthorn of the Orrery, representing the Sun. The other Planets wait, all but humming, taut within their spidery Linkages back to the Crank-Shaft and the Crank, held in the didactic Grasp of the Revd Cherrycoke. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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