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The Orrery |
/Or"re*ry/ n.; pl. Orreries.
[So named in honor of Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery.]
An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by
wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc.,
of bodies in the solar system.
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