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Orrery
This term is usually applied to a small-scale three-dimensional representation of the movements of the heavenly bodies of the solar system, the Earth, moon, planets and their satellites, about the sun, operable by hand or clock-driven. The instrument shows in considerable detail the rotation of the Earth on its own axis and in orbit around the sun, also the rotation of the moon around the Earth, and the rotation of the sun about its own axis.
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