| 单词 | orrery |
| 例句 | A few days ago, when I was communing with the orrery, I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Ah, so the orrery is some kind of time machine, according to Christina? Lovecraft Country recap: season one, episode four – misogyny, murder and Montrose 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Opera powers He’s orrery, so her time in Hong Kong, like every other city in which she performs, is fleeting. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z In Moholy-Nagy's 1932 film of the thing in action, A Light-Play Black White Grey, it whirs away like the chance meeting of an orrery and a cinema projector, surrounded by constellations of splintered light. Light fantastic 2013-01-26T09:00:44Z A small orrery takes about a month to make and Norfolk-based Staines and Son would normally ship between six and 10 each year to customers all over the world. The traditional crafts in danger of dying out 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z He would put on planetarium-esque light shows for his daughters, and his studio was filled with orreries — Renaissance-era models of the solar system. Hollywood Bowl concert goes to outer space, from '2001' to 'First Man' 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It includes a microscope used by Charles Darwin and a six-planet "grand orrery" - a model of the solar system - dating from about 1750. Museum housing Darwin's microscope reopens 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z With the orrery, he uses sedimentary records to reckon the orbital positions of the Earth and other planets more than 200 million years ago. A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z An early orrery, a mechanical model of the Solar System built around 1712.Credit: Solar flair: the Sun on show 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The first modern orrery was built by clockmakers George Graham and Thomas Tompion in the early 1700s. The traditional crafts in danger of dying out 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The one-year chamber includes an orrery of the planets and interplanetary probes launched during the 20th century. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos chimes in on 10,000 Year Clock as installation starts 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The grand orrery, an "unusual and rare piece" made by George Adams circa 1750, demonstrates the movement of the six known planets around the Sun. Museum housing Darwin's microscope reopens 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z An orrery, like many scientific instruments invented during the Enlightenment, is an attempt to constrain a dynamic corner of the universe—in this case, the solar system—in an orderly model. A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Cosmic models also have a surprisingly long technological prehistory, involving astronomical clocks, walk-in revolving globes and giant mechanical orreries, many astonishingly complex. Planetariums and the rise of spectacular science Officials at the observatory near Macclesfield will, therefore, surely be alarmed at a proposal that would render their new orrery old after all. Pluto could be staging a comeback — and it’s not alone 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Meetings were like an orrery, that complex mechanical model of the solar system that shows the movement of the planets. I never thought I’d say this: I actually miss going to meetings 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Wands, brass orreries and hermetic inscriptions abound, along with many other symbols of the mystic traditions Crowley draws on in his acclaimed short stories and novels. Imagination abounds in new books by Willis, Beagle and Crowley 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Eighteenth-century orreries presumed they were, even as Isaac Newton realized that in a system of more than two orbiting bodies, the gravitational interactions between them would send them careening apart or tumbling into one another. A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In place of a circular dial, however, the clock is now crowned with a large orrery indicating planetary positions. A Clock for All Time 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The second app, SuperPlanetCrash, is a simple but addictive game that animates the orbits of planetary systems as a “digital orrery”. Telescope Apps Help Amateurs Hunt for Exoplanets 2014-04-18T17:00:00Z The orrery was driven by David Butler, who lost both legs and a hand to an unexploded bomb at the age of 11 and has competed in over 600 motorsport events, including World Championship rallies. Paralympics 2012 opening ceremony: Games launched on a storm of ideas 2012-08-29T23:20:12Z In 1787 he completed the construction of a gear-driven orrery displaying the motions of the solar system in a horizontal plane with eccentric and inclined orbits. Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers 2012-03-15T02:00:31.610Z Olsen says he does not consider the orrery to be a culmination of decades of work so much as the beginning of a new chapter in geophysical sciences. A Geological "Orrery" Could Reveal Planetary Dynamics in Deep Time 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z This was Barlow's way of telling of the achievement of David Rittenhouse, the colonial astronomer, in fashioning the marvellous orrery, the mechanical representation of the movements of the planetary system. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z A bequest of £70, towards the purchase of an orrery, was received from Rev. Jos. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z When I described an orrery to Parouba, he said: "If the copy indicates genius, how much more must there be in the original?" Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He became a famous astronomer, constructed an orrery to show the movements of the stars which was an improvement on all its predecessors, and conducted the observations of the transit of Venus in 1769. The True Benjamin Franklin He made himself master of the globes and orrery, and acquired a knowledge of natural philosophy, a term which then took in a wide field of science. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence You therefore present this orrery to any person, and desire him to choose one of the questions there written. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments She was keenly interested in astronomical lessons, and the home-made orrery, which explained the relative position of sun, moon, and planets, was a source of unfailing interest. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind You admire those newly invented machines, called orreries, because Lord Orrery invented them by imitating the maker. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He was in a low rank of trade, and in poor circumstances, which he endeavoured to improve by exhibiting at private houses an orrery of his own making. Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc As such they were comparable to the orreries of the 18th century and to modern planetariums; that they also showed the time and rang it on bells was almost incidental to their main function. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass We observe, too, that no one who wished to chronicle fresh facts would go to the orrery to learn them. Memoranda Sacra He has had the same to do with the development of modern science that the inventor of the orrery has had to do with the discovery of the mechanism of the world. Pioneers of Science This period, this slow course of about twenty-six thousand years, could not be effected in our feeble hands by human orreries. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z There were an orrery out of repair, and a few detached parts of philosophical apparatus. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Over against the windows were three large bookcases, upon the top of the middle one stood an orrery, and a globe on each of the others. A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue And let us remember that we shall never get at any fresh religious truth by means of ritual; the proper destination of all orreries, religious or otherwise, is the museum. Memoranda Sacra Graham invented the "compensating mercury pendulum," the "dead escapement," and the "orrery," none of which have been much improved since. Pushing to the Front Huge book-shelves occupied two of the walls, an orrery stood against a third, while dusty curiosities filled up the corners. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best That little feat of Atlas would be child's-play to him; for he could step off with a whole orrery on those shoulders. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Frank had read of an orrery in which the motions of the planets were shown by ingenious mechanism. By the Christmas Fire Globes and orreries are the playthings of our school-days; we inhale the spirit of Protestantism with our earliest breath of consciousness. Short Studies on Great Subjects Two orreries were made by Rittenhouse, as also a machine for predicting eclipses. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Nay, he was even a mathematician and astronomer, and constructed an astrolabe or orrery, which showed the courses of the planets. Illuminated Manuscripts Well, some of our astronomers constructed this orrery, and exhibited it to a gathering of the leading native scholars, who are also the high-priests of the local religion. Uller Uprising An orrery of this description is, however, liable to the objection that if handed around among the audience for examination, it is seldom returned uninjured. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) The model of the world inside the orrery must have been made from earthly materials already, and it was colored to depict land and sea areas. The Sky Is Falling Miriam looked at him for a moment inquiringly, and then fell to watching the orrery again. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers And they constructed a government as they would have constructed an orrery,—to display the laws of nature. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People There was a large, airy room set apart for the purpose, and furnished with every suitable appliance, books, maps, globes, pictures, an orrery, a piano, etc., etc. Elsie's Motherhood I followed Gazen along the gangway which encircled the orrery, and allowed us to survey each of the planets closer at hand. A Trip to Venus Once the crystal shell was cracked out of the orrery, a fat-faced Ser came in with a long tube and began working the molten sky material, getting the feel of it. The Sky Is Falling Astronomical science I assured them did not recognise any such eclipses as those produced by swallowing the planets, and however satisfactory such a course might be to them, it was very demoralising to my orrery. Tent Life in Siberia This orrery, perhaps the completest in the world, was made in all its details by this gentleman, and, in its wheel-work, is an astonishing production. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 The first orrery was constructed by a Mr. Rowley, a mathematician born at Lichfield; and so named from his patron the Earl of Orrery. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation He contrived also the combination of pulleys, and he constructed an orrery to represent the movement of the heavenly bodies. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements It was crude, but it might serve to represent the orrery. The Sky Is Falling An orrery is a working model of the solar system. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Archimedes, born 287 B.C., is stated to have measured the distance of the sun, moon, and planets, and he constructed an orrery in which he exhibited their motions. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Lord Orrery was the first for whom an 'orrery' was constructed; Lord Spencer first wore, or first brought into fashion, a 'spencer'; and the Duke of Roquelaure the cloak which still bears his name. On the Study of Words Archimedes of Syracuse, born 287 B.C., is stated to have measured the distance of the sun, moon, and planets, and he constructed an orrery in which he exhibited their motions. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements The orrery was housed temporarily in the reconstituted hall of the Satheri in the capital city. The Sky Is Falling A gentleman came from London to lecture in the town, and showed astonished Fenmarket an orrery and a magic lantern with dissolving views of the Holy Land. Clara Hopgood He used also a combination of pulleys, and he constructed an orrery to represent the movement of the heavenly bodies. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. Our orreries, too, must not they be given to children, and new ones constructed, that will at least take in our retired corner and all its OUtflying constellations? The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 A strong interest in experimental science had been already excited in him at Sion House by the exhibition of an orrery; and this interest grew into a passion at Eton. Percy Bysshe Shelley It would be something like the orreries he'd seen used for demonstrations of planetary movement. The Sky Is Falling They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playing balls, historically costumed dolls. Ulysses The orrery has its name from the person who invented it. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason The description is both a picture and an orrery, and therefore is necessarily inconsistent with itself. The Republic The fools who had moved the orrery must have been so careless that they'd sprung the mechanism. The Sky Is Falling If you want a model to determine how the orbits should be, we have the finest orrery ever built here in the camp. The Sky Is Falling He clutched it in his hand and touched it against the orrery, trying to remember the formula for the giving of a true name. The Sky Is Falling Or could a model of the universe, such as is called an orrery, be presented before him and put in motion, his mind would arrive at the same idea. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason The orrery or picture of the heavens given in the Republic differs in its mode of representation from the circles of the same and of the other in the Timaeus. The Republic Then he straightened, moving his hands toward the orrery in passes too rapid to be seen. The Sky Is Falling "What is wrong with the orrery?" he asked. The Sky Is Falling Through the diamond lens, Hanson could see the model of the world in the orrery changing. The Sky Is Falling The warlocks began to close ranks, falling back to make a stand under the jutting edge of the roof, where they could protect the orrery. The Sky Is Falling He had suddenly realized what horrors were possible to anyone who could use the orrery now. The Sky Is Falling The orrery named Rumpelstilsken was obeying its orders fully, and the universe was obeying its symbol. The Sky Is Falling He stared doubtfully at the rods and bearings that supported the model world in the center of the orrery. The Sky Is Falling |
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