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Number of documents found: 4
- Title: Account of the Orrery [from Pensylavania Gazette March 28, 1771, uigned, probably by William Smith]
SubTitle: [refers to the 1767 Rittenhouse orrery, now known as the Princeton Rittenhouse orrery] - Author: David Rittenhouse, William Smith
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Notes: A newspaper account of the public showing of the 1767 Rittenhouse orrery in Philadelphia, reprinted in the appendix of the 1954 Princeton exhibition book.
Kind: Chapter
Type: Scientific instrument
Geographic area: USA
Topic: Astronomy
Organization: NA/other
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10778
Parent Document ID: 10775 - Parent Document Title: Rittenhouse Orrery , Princeton's Eighteenth-Century Planetarium - A commentary on the exhibition held at the Princeton Library- Title: Description of a New Orrery 1767
SubTitle: [The Princeton Rittenhouse orrery]- Author: David Rittenhouse
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Other Keywords: orrery Rittenhouse
Notes: Appendix in exhibit book of 1954, gives full text of Rittenhouse's description of 1767
Kind: Chapter
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10776
Parent Document ID: 10775 - Parent Document Title: Rittenhouse Orrery , Princeton's Eighteenth-Century Planetarium - A commentary on the exhibition held at the Princeton Library- Title: Little Paper - on the orrery [written Februay 1771]
SubTitle: [now known as the Rittenhouse Princeton orrery of 1767]- Author: David Rittenhouse
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Notes: A short essay by Rittenhouse on the 1767 orrery (Princeton orrery) reprinted in Appendix of 1954 exhibit book of Princeton
Kind: Chapter
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10777
Parent Document ID: 10775 - Parent Document Title: Rittenhouse Orrery , Princeton's Eighteenth-Century Planetarium - A commentary on the exhibition held at the Princeton Library- Title: On the improvement of Timekeepers
SubTitle: [Article in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol.4, p.26/28 & 1 plate]- Author: David Rittenhouse
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Keywords: clock watch
Other Keywords: escapement
Language: ENG
Edition: 1799 -- Copyright: 1799
Kind: Article
Type: Clock (general)
Geographic area: USA
Topic: TheoryGeneral
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 3
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 20856 - Publisher:
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