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English: Drawing of orrery built in 1813 by British astronomer Dr. William Pearson. The lower drawing is a section through the axis, showing the mechanism. In addition to the planets and their moons, it also showed the asteroids Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas. A detailed description of the construction of this orrery can be found in Planetary Machines, Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Vol.16, 1830, William Blackwood & Proprietors, Edinburgh UK, p.646-651. Alterations: removed title and plate number, sharpened image, erased some JPEG artifacts, converted to PNG. |
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Source | Downloaded from Planetary Machines, Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Vol.16, 1830, William Blackwood & Proprietors, Edinburgh UK, Plate 462, following p.741 on Google Books. |
Author | David Brewster |
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