orrery in English

noun
1
a mechanical model of the solar system, or of just the sun, earth, and moon, used to represent their relative positions and motions.
The discs could be set to the current configuration of planets to act as a crude orrery .

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1. Rebuild the defiled Orrery and unlock the secrets of this Mages Guild Inner Sanctum.

2. The Orrery is my life's work, and I would hate to see it pass into obscurity now.

3. The Orrery was painted without a commission, probably in the expectation that it would be bought by Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers, an amateur astronomer who had an orrery of his own, and with whom Wright's friend Peter Perez Burdett was staying while in Derbyshire.

4. Harness the power of the stars. Rebuild the defiled Orrery and unlock the secrets of this Mages Guild Inner Sanctum.

5. The orrery is a spin-off project and the result of brainstorming for the clock, and was completed in 200

6. The butler of a gentleman in Co. Cork, a neighbour of the Earl of Orrery, was sent to purchase playing cards.

7. Its wheels and gears create a portable orrery of the sky that predicted star and planet locations as well as lunar and solar eclipses.

8. Below the planetary display, each bit serial adder controls one element of the display, the orrery, each of them corresponding to calculate that planet's orbit.

9. 1751, John Boyle Earl of Orrery, The Letters of Pliny the Younger: The Aruspices, by whose admonition [ aruspicum monitu] PLINY had undertaken to rebuild the temple of CERES, were always more revered in …

10. Bookplates In A Collection of the State Letters His bookplate dating to 1751 or later; John succeeded his father as fifth earl of Orrery in 1731 and his kinsman as fifth earl of Cork in 1751