Steampunk - The orrery
by Mike Savad
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Steampunk - The orrery
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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This interesting thing is called an Orrey, its a clockwork mechanism to simulate the different rotations of planets. They were not precise devices, you couldn't use the to measure a location like you could with an astrolabe or an armillary
With this device you could see how moons traveled around planets and how everything moved. You probably had a simple version of this in school, this one was a big clockwork machine.
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April 7th, 2020
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