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    An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according...
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    Earl of Orrery is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that has been united with the earldom of Cork since 1753. It was created in 1660 for the soldier, statesman...
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  • The Kepler Orrery is a group of animations created by Daniel Fabrycky and Ethan Kruse, which show exoplanets and stars discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope...
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    title in the Peerage of Ireland, held in conjunction with the Earldom of Orrery since 1753. It was created in 1620 for Richard Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle. He...
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    Planetarium) is an 18th-century orrery in Franeker, Friesland, Netherlands. It is currently a museum and open to the public. The orrery has been on the top 100...
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    A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, or the full title, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, is...
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    succeeded in the earldom of Cork by his third cousin, the fifth Earl of Orrery (see the Earl of Cork for further history of these titles). Lord Burlington...
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    skill with instruments, particularly clocks, led him to construct two orreries to scale models of the solar system, the first for The College of New Jersey...
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    Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences. The second son...
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    securely onto the table, preventing access to the orrery. In the same article, Betts illustrates the orrery, fitted in a mahogany twelve-sided case, with...
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    Eise Eisinga (section Orrery)
    Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world. Eise...
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  • was originally called the All-Aged Stakes. It was renamed the Cork and Orrery Stakes in 1926, in honour of the 9th Earl of Cork, who served as the Master...
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    the author of five books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, The One-Strand River, and Terminator. Richard...
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  • the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and 12th Earl of Orrery, GCB, GCVO (30 November 1873 – 19 April 1967) was a British Royal Navy officer...
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    Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, 25 April 1621 to 16 October 1679, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician. A younger son of the Earl of Cork, the largest...
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    John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS (13 January 1707 – 16 November 1762) was an Anglo-Irish writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift...
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  • Lionel Boyle, 3rd Earl of Orrery (11 July 1671 – 24 August 1703), styled Lord Broghill between 1679 and 1682, was an Anglo-Irish politician. Boyle was...
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    the Gladiator by Candlelight (1765), his A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (1766), in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, and An Experiment on a Bird...
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  • of gross instability. Another project involved constructing the Digital Orrery by G. Sussman and his MIT group in 1988. The group used a special-purpose...
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    Baron Clifford Lionel Boyle (1671–1703) 3rd Earl of Orrery Charles Boyle (1674–1731) 4th Earl of Orrery William Cavendish (1672–1729) 2nd Duke of Devonshire...
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    on the Orrery, in which a Lamp is put in place of the Sun (normally known by the shortened form A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery or just...
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  • Kamboureli Alan Kane 1954 Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies Donna Kane poet Orrery Adeena Karasick 1965 poet This Poem Ibi Kaslik 1973 novelist Skinny, The...
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    usually be referred to as orreries (named for the Earl of Orrery). In fact, many planetariums today have projection orreries, which project onto the dome...
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    Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery (24 August 1646 – 29 March 1682), styled Lord Broghill between 1660 and 1679, was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament...
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    planets and their movements from a geocentric perspective, much like an orrery would have done for a heliocentric one, presumably for didactic purposes...
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  • This is a sortable table of the townlands in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore, County Cork, Ireland. Duplicate names occur where there is more than one...
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    Joseph Wright of Derby painted several large groups with strong chiaroscuro, such as A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, 1766...
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    designer of the Digital Orrery, a machine designed to do high-precision integrations for orbital mechanics experiments. The Orrery hardware was designed...
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  • and discovers that George had been there. She works out how to use the orrery and finds a key hidden within. Christina shows Ruby the corpse of William...
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  • The Earl of Orrery The Viscount Falkland Member of Parliament for Arundel 1660–1661 with The Earl of Orrery Succeeded by The Earl of Orrery The Lord Aungier...
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