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Image number: RS.9168
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'The four wheel'd orrery'
Date
1747
Creator
G Child, Engraver
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Library reference
38980
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height (print): 163mm
width (print): 245mm
width (print): 245mm
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Description
'The four wheel'd orrery' from A dissertation upon the phaenomena of the harvest Moon; also, The description and use of a new four-wheel'd orrery, and an Essay upon the Moon's turning round on her own axis, by James Ferguson (London, 1747).
James Ferguson (1710–1776) was a natural philosopher and inventor of scientific instruments. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System, based on Copernican principles.
James Ferguson (1710–1776) was a natural philosopher and inventor of scientific instruments. An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System, based on Copernican principles.
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