Talk:Orrery

message: This page seems like it could really use a picture to illustrate what an orrery would look like. Does anyone have a picture, especially of one of the orreries mentioned? --Edward Tremel 23:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently there is a picture, but not really a clear/good one. Something like this is a lot more illustrative. 66.229.160.94 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: "Similar tricks can be used to show Pluto and its six-thousand seventeen moons." This sentence seems odd--I was under the impression that pluto had three known moons.
David L. Kutzler —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deliverance (talk • contribs) 10:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: If i wanted to make a realistic orrery, how would i go about that, does anyone have a site that could help?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xaedra (talk • contribs) 17:51, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Making an Orrery

message: I wonder if orrery is the origin of the phrase "as queer as a clockwork orange". Of course I don't want to intro some folk etymology. But looking here
http://webapp1.somerset.gov.uk/her/details.asp?prn=24750
there is some history where Orange and Orrery could be connected. Now if the phrase origins can be found this can be verified beyond my sepcualtion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.197.64.194 (talk) 10:57, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  clockwork orange 

message: From http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/FATHERS2/ANF07/FOOTNOTE/FN5.HTM#P506_200720   Note 54; "54 Illa vera. [Newton showed his orrery to Halley the atheist, who was charmed with the contrivance, and asked the name of the maker. "Nobody," was the ad hominem retort.]
69.92.23.64 (talk)Ronald L. Hughes69.92.23.64 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 23:11, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Reverting. The sources are in the linked pages. Wyatt Riot (talk) 19:25, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newton's Orrery 

message: ...how to pronounce it.  Chrisrus (talk) 06:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Readers want to know... 

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message: Modern orreries - Text says "Clock makers George Graham and Thomas Tompion built the first modern orrery around 1704 in England".[8] Ref: Carlisle, Rodney (2004). Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries, p. 189. John Wiley & Songs, Inc., New Jersey. ISBN 0-471-24410-4. On p189, this says, "The first orrery was made before 1719 by George Graham and Thomas Tompion...", not 1704. Kylenano (talk) 10:44, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Earliest Orreries 

message: Software like Stellarium or Celestia (and other Planetarium software) could be considered modern or computerized orreries. They serve the similar purpose of illustrating the solar system. A note about this could be added to the article, but I'm not sure whether/how it fits.
Columbus240 (talk) 17:44, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to modern software