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Title
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An Eighteenth-Century Orrery
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Caption
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An orrery is a mechanical model which depicts, and sometimes predicts, the relative position of the planets and the Earth and its moon. Collectively, astronomy and other emerging modern sciences were part of “Natural Philosophy” in Dartmouth’s curriculum.
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Date Created
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n.d.
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Rights
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
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Rights Holder
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Trustees of Dartmouth College
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Bibliographic Citation
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An Eighteenth-Century Orrery, n.d., Photo Files, Iconography 1647, Rauner Special Collections Library.
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Filename
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Icon1647-1364-0000001A.jpg
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Case Number
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309
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Item Number
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17
