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Table orrery
Also titled Tafelplanetarium
c. 1800 - c. 1808
- Medium
- ivory, gilding (material), wood (plant material), brass (alloy)
- Classification
- orrery
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The instrument-maker Hartog van Laun designed a table orrery – a mechanical device to show the relative positions and movements of the sun, earth, moon and planets. He used the instrument for his own lectures, but he achieved true success with it only when the Amsterdam professor Jan Hendrik van Swinden fully explained it at the Felix Meritis Society in 1802 and published articles about it.
