[Oobject] The 8 foot tall Long Now Foundation Orrery. It shows the six planets visible with the un-aided human eye (Mercury through Saturn). The lower six layers are a mechanical calculator made ...

One room-sized orrery example was built by the self-taught Frisian astronomer Eise Eisinga. It's still operational today in Franeker, Netherlands. No human has ever been to the edge of the Solar ...

[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 ...

The astronomical clock in the Strasbourg cathedral in eastern France, including a perpetual calendar, an orrery, a display ... that represents the entirety of human civilization.

What in the heck is an Orrery? If you’re looking at the image above we’re sure you’ve already figured it out (kudos to the big brains that knew the word). For those that don’t get it ...

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 ...