Orrery

[Dave Monroe]

First thing anyone says to me at work today, "We had
an orrery accident on the dock" ...

Main Entry: or·rery
Pronunciation: 'or-&r-E, 'är-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural or·rer·ies
Etymology: Charles Boyle died 1731 4th Earl of Orrery
: an apparatus showing the relative positions and
motions of bodies in the solar system by balls moved
by a clockwork

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=orrery

http://m-w.com/mw/art/orrery.htm

http://www.fourmilab.ch/solar/solar.html

'"Show us upon the Orrery," suggests Pliny." (M&D, p.
94)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0401&msg=87937

"... a circular room with a great wooden sun, overlaid
with gold leaf, burning cold in the very center and
round it the nine planets and their moons ..." (V., p.
239)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=54158

"Shall I project a world?" (Lot 49, p. 82)

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-orr1.htm

http://www.wordsmith.org/words/orrery.html


		
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