Wikipedia:GLAM/Natural History Museum and Science Museum/SM Galleries/Science in the 18th century
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Image is a part of A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1766.
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Frontispiece from A New Universal History of Arts and Science, London, 1759.
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The Grand Orrery was enlarged in 1733 by the astronomer Thomas Wright.
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The Original Orrery is one of the earliest mechanical models of the solar system constructed by John Rowley in 1712. More information here