orrery

How To Use orrery In A Sentence

• 'There is a clockwork mechanism to drive the orrery - the turning Earth. ANTI-ICE
• The orrery in the corner steadily creaks out the minutes of the day, its rods and disks spinning the tiny planets, suns, and moons over and around the world.
• This wonderful program is a solar system simulator, a digital orrery (Marcel's Collins defines it as a " mechanical model of the solar system in which the planets can be moved at the correct relative velocities around the sun ’).
• (The first couplet is by Roger Boyle, the Earl of Orrery, 1621-79, and the second by the ever-great Anonymous.) Author, author: Nick Laird
• A choir and instrumentalists from local community groups then performed a musical spectacular as an orrery - a mechanical model of the planet - was unveiled with the help of a crane.
• Such an accurate model is called an orrery.
• For, we never got over it; the threadbare Orrery outwore our mutual tenderness; the man with the wand was too much for the boy with the bow. The Uncommercial Traveller
• The orchestration titled ‘28 moons’ is a complex arrangement reminiscent of an orrery, the model of the solar system that many planetariums display.
• He has moreover enriched his work by adding to it an ecclesiastic compute with all its indications; an orrery after the Copernican system, representing the mean tropical revolutions of each of the planets visible to the naked eye, the phases of the moon, the eclipses of the sun and moon, calculated for ever; the true time and the sideral time; a new celestial globe with the procession of the equinoxes, solar and lunary equations for the reduction of the mean geocentric ascension and declension of the sun and moon at true times and places. Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
• I have an extremely vague recollection of Jerry in some interview or other mentioning "The Nursery Frieze," the Gorey work consisting of a long series of animals of indeterminate species, each uttering a single, odd word, like "sphagnum" ... "orrery" ... deadsongs. vue.168 The WELL: Ripple