The pair are finishing the monumental task of reassembling the object — the Grand Orrery — after studying each of its pieces in a disassembled form. The process is almost complete. Harvard ...

The 1780 Grand Orrery, designed by James Ferguson, is a complex clock. It is the zenith of the view of the world as a complex clockwork mechanism. [Oobject] The 8 foot tall Long Now Foundation Orrery.

It includes a microscope used by Charles Darwin and a six-planet "grand orrery" - a model of the solar system - dating from about 1750. Collections manager Claire Wallace described it as a ...

[Illusionmanager] continues the orrery tradition but uses a different approach: he built a beautiful ceiling-mounted model of our Solar System without a gearing system. The mechanism that makes ...

Experts at Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments are using the Grand Orrery, a centuries-old mechanical model of the solar system, to study the Revolutionary War. Morison ...

The pair are finishing the monumental task of reassembling the object — the Grand Orrery — after studying each of its pieces in a disassembled form. The process is almost complete. Harvard acquired ...