<i>The Orrery</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1749
notes: label: Description
content: This engraving depicts the orrery that Thomas Wright made in 1730 for Mr. Watts’ Academy in Tower Street, London. The surrounding diagrams represent the Ptolemaic system, the Tychonic system, the Copernican system, and the orbits of Mercury and Venus around the Sun. The text at top reads: “The Theory of the HEAVENS & the Earth explain’d according to the several Systems.” The text at bottom reads: “Engrav’d for the Universal Magazine 1749 for J. Hinton at the Kings Arms in St Pauls Church-Yard LONDON”
label: Description
content: Ref: “The History of All Nations,” <i>Universal Magazine</i> 4 (1749): 49-58.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329183
label: catalog number
content: 329183
label: accession number
content: 280072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.5 cm x 25.8 cm; 8 1/16 in x 10 5/32 in