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Astronomy.

to e ' a fy an d intelligible; and to evidence° Ur Senses how all those Appearances

happen,

f ee ,.

v irin„ rl ts Barbarous Britain abounding in Orreries offt Kinds and Sizes ?

And Q 5 ° ni Ais Time we bear no more of Orreries% f a ^ here b till about 510 Years after Christ, when^’aanl p* S - ^ evermus Boethius, the Christian (though^h er JJ. Philosopher, is said to have contrived or

one which

King of the Goth wrote to him about, and^ Ur £u J*" ^° r b ‘ S 13 r °ther-in-Law Gundibald King of^vid ^ 5 ' n which Letter he calls it Machinam Mundo* s , a a Pf>~-Cœlum gestabile,—JLcrum Compendium ; thatf^ e ay e>! ac h' ln e pregnant with the Universe,—a portable®e fain y ~T a Compendium of all Things. What more can7. /st our Orreries ?

a nd ( ter this succeeded a long Interval of Barbarism*j>at ^ tl °s ance 5 which so deluged the Literary World,fill tjj 6 g.tid no Instances of Mechanism of any Notea gai n ^ sixteenth Century, when the Sciences beganAccft rev ->ve, and the Mechanical Arts to £ourifli,hlanfjj' ‘ n § 1 y we meet with many Pieces of curious Work-n^ay ^ ab out this Time ; and in the AstronomicalMlac e particu larly is the stately Clock in his Majesty’sMm e a *' Bhampton-Court, made in Henry the Eighth’s° nl y th fr' D - 1540, by one N. 0 . This shews nota Nd a. E "Our of the Day, but the Motion of the Sun

, -v r jL Vio °n through all the Signs of the Zodiac, withest e a « e rs depending thereon ; and is therefore to8. a Piece of Orrery-Work.

* ae dr a i f anot her is mentioned by Heylin at the Ca-bbie at ° Lunden in Denmark ; but the most conside-r tb ed r , '^ ime >s that Piece of Clock-work in theT°clc.p a Strasburg in Alsace ; in which, besides the> tio ar > is the Celestial Globe or Sphere, with thej', ^of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Eix’d Stars,lu Peri Qr Wa ® finished in the Year 1574, and is muchCQl Uai, K 0 tb at pompous Clock at Lyons , which also,.9- 4i. an Orrery-Part.

§0^0^ the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century°* Mechanism began to be greatly in Vogue,M 4 and

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