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Definition of Orreries
1. orrery [n] - See also: orrery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orreries
Literary usage of Orreries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Clock and Watch Making: Theoretical and Practical by Thomas Reid (1832)
"On Finding Numbers for the Wheels and Pinions of orreries, ... such as are properly
suited for the motions requisite for orreries or planetariums. ..."
2. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"... or orreries have sometimes been employed, in which the comparative periods of
the revolutions have been expressed by-various combinations of ..."
3. Hunt's Hand-book to the Official Catalogues: An Explanatory Guide to the by Robert Hunt (1851)
"GLOBES AND orreries. (Exhibitors 175, 188, 198, 200, 207, 212, 218, 354.)
Newtonian Globes. (212.)—These globes are hung in stationary rings or meridians, ..."
4. On the Mental Illumination and Moral Improvement of Mankind: Or, An Inquiry by Thomas Dick (1836)
"... orreries afford no correct views of these particulars; and some of them convey
very erroneous and distorted conceptions of the relations of the solar ..."
5. Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S.: In a Brief Autobiographical Account, and by James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson (1870)
"We may here remark, that Ferguson had several emine nt rivals in the art of
constructing orreries ; of whom may be mentioned— 1st. ..."
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