Theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky

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Astronomy: a large orrery, mounted on a dodecahedral base, decorated with signs of the zodiac. Engraving.

Positively the last times : theatre, Dover : Mr. D.F. Walker... has the honour to announce three astronomical lectures on the Eidouranion; or, large transparent orrery... to commence Saturday, 2d, Monday, 4th, and Tuesday, 5th, August, 1817.

Charles Patin, his wife, and family: his wife holding a miniature of his father, one daughter holding an open book, the other an orrery. Engraving by J. Juster, 1691, after N. Jouvenet, 1684.

Geography: a combination orrery and globe. Coloured engraving.

This evening, Mr. C.H. Adams, will repeat his lecture on astronomy / The King's Theatre.

Theatre Royal, Haymarket, made perfectly warm by a powerful air stove in the centre of the pit : on Friday evening, March 10, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Lloyd's dioastrodoxon, the largest and most magnificent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public.

A philosopher giving an astronomical lecture on an orrery. Mezzotint by W. Pether after J. Wright, ca. 1780.

Electricity: 28 figures of electrical apparatus and experiments. Engraving by Porter, ca. 1806.

The path of the great comet of 1858, will be traced in space, with explanatory remarks / Music Hall, George Street, Edinburgh.

A philosopher giving a lecture on the orrery. Mezzotint by W. Pether, 1768, after Joseph Wright of Derby.

The largest and most magnificent, and intelligent orrery in the British Empire and the only transparent orrery ever yet offered to the public... : Theatre Royal, Haymarket... on Friday evening, March 3, 1820, and every Monday, Wednesday & Friday, during Lent : Mr. Lloyd will give his astronomical lecture illustrated by the dioastrodoxon, or, grand transparent orrery.

A man demonstrating an orrery (a model of the solar system) to two girls and another man. Woodcut by Sukenobu, 1758.

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Astronomy: a large orrery, mounted on a dodecahedral base, decorated with signs of the zodiac. Engraving.

Geography: a combination orrery and globe. Coloured engraving.

A man demonstrating an orrery (a model of the solar system) to two girls and another man. Woodcut by Sukenobu, 1758.

Electricity: 28 figures of electrical apparatus and experiments. Engraving by Porter, ca. 1806.

Planetariums

Images from the collections

Images about Planetariums

Works from the collections

Astronomy: a large orrery, mounted on a dodecahedral base, decorated with signs of the zodiac. Engraving.

Geography: a combination orrery and globe. Coloured engraving.

A man demonstrating an orrery (a model of the solar system) to two girls and another man. Woodcut by Sukenobu, 1758.

Electricity: 28 figures of electrical apparatus and experiments. Engraving by Porter, ca. 1806.

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