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832013161644734Code 3568 Orrery XIX centuryAntique mechanical orrery with brass mechanism and gears, signed N. Selander Stockholm and made at the end of the XIX century. Papier maché sphere and coated cast iron base. Very good condition and in order. Measures cm 66x42 - inches 25.98x16.53.
The orrery is the most detailed and complex representation of the cosmos and in addition to the movement of stars, it includes movement of the sun, moon and planets, like a giant clock mechanism. Among these devices one of the oldest orrery had been made by Archimedes, and Cicero spoke widely about it in Tusculanae Disputationes I, 63: when Roman troops sacked Syracuse in 212 BC, the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus in Rome brought the instrument of Archimedes, who, thanks to his ability and "divine intelligence" that he possessed, had managed to generate the motions of planets, each so different, from a single rotation.
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