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A small orrery showing Earth and the inner planets. 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 to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; however, since accurate scaling is often not ...
Orrery and Kilmore (Irish: Orbhraí agus An Choill Mhór) is a historical barony in north County Cork, Ireland. [1] [2] Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. [3] They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. [4] [5]
The Antikythera mechanism (/ ˌ æ n t ɪ k ɪ ˈ θ ɪər ə / AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also / ˌ æ n t aɪ k ɪ ˈ-/ AN-ty-kih-) [1] [2] is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. [3] [4] [5] It could be used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades ...
A 1766 Benjamin Martin mechanical model, or orrery, on display at the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed ...
Replica grand orrery on display alongside the original painting in Derby Museum and Art Gallery, England.. The Orrery was painted without a commission, probably in the expectation that it would be bought by Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers, a British Royal Navy officer who had an orrery of his own, and with whom Wright's friend Peter Perez Burdett was staying while in Derbyshire.
Earl of Orrery is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that has been united with the earldom of Cork since 1753. It was created in 1660 for the soldier, statesman and dramatist Roger Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle , third but eldest surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork .
Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery (24 August 1646 – 29 March 1682), styled Lord Broghill between 1660 and 1679, was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. Boyle was born in Dublin , the son of Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery , by Lady Margaret, daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk .
The orrery was created by Fabrycky, then a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Cruz, largely due to an accident.When he created an animation of a six-planet system Kepler-11 for his work on a home computer in 2011, his son and daughter were found playing with the program.