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The Kepler Orrery is a group of animations created by Daniel Fabrycky and Ethan Kruse, which show exoplanets and stars discovered by the Kepler Space...

An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according...

modifications are close to modern observations. In the following century, Johannes Kepler introduced elliptical orbits, and Galileo Galilei presented supporting observations...

century after Franz Hammer, a biographer (along with Max Caspar) of Johannes Kepler, claimed that the drawings of a calculating clock, predating the public...

AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also /ˌæntaɪkɪˈ-/ AN-ty-kih-) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue...

constructed 1850–1855, comprises an astronomical clock with 10 dials and an orrery. Rouen. The Gros Horloge has a movement built in 1389, with a dial added...

planets and their movements from a geocentric perspective, much like an orrery would have done for a heliocentric one, presumably for didactic purposes...

St. Albans Abbey, famously built a mechanical clock as an astronomical orrery about 1330. By the time of Richard of Wallingford, the use of ratchets and...

St. Alban's abbey, famously built a mechanical clock as an astronomical orrery about 1330. Great advances in accurate time-keeping were made by Galileo...

in human terms. Some are small in scale (and may be mechanical—called orreries)—whereas others extend across cities or regional areas. The largest such...

Millburn (1978). Geared to the Stars: the evolution of planetariums, orreries, and astronomical clocks. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Granville...

an unpublished manuscript created by him. The painting also includes an orrery depicting the same principle. According to Griffing, buildings included...

on the transit of Venus. It consists of a telescope looking at a working orrery which has the planet Venus replaced by a figure of the astronomer depicted...

Shunga Empire in Pataliputra. Indo-Greek Kingdom. Antikythera mechanism orrery. 2.2–1.8 ka c. 200 BCE – 224 CE Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt...

England, R) Samuel Bownas (1676–1753, England, R) Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (1621–1679, Ireland/England, Po/Mi) Gerald Warner Brace (1901–1978, US,...

not only mastered Newton’s Principia as a teenager, he built clocks, orreries, and other scientific devices. It is believed that he built the first telescope...

measurement of longitude by map makers and surveyors, with validation of Kepler's Third Law of planetary motion, and with measurement of the speed of light...

English admiral and politician (d. 1670) April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and dramatist (d. 1679) May 25 – David Beck...

Flamsteed, British astronomer (d. 1719) August 24 – Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, Member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1682) August 28 – Tsugaru Nobumasa...