Narratives

Orrery Collection in print

The Orrery collection was first published by R.T. Gunther in Early Science in Oxford, vol. I (Oxford, 1923), 378-382. Gunther included a transcription of Thomas Wright's "An Inventory of the Mathematicall Instrumts: in the Library of the Rt Honble: ye Earl of Orrery Deceast" of 17 September 1731, adding numbers to Wright's list.

The manuscript inventory remains at Christ Church; the Museum has a negative photostat in its Collection files.

Anthony Turner provides an illustrated study of the collection in Early Scientific Instruments: Europe 1400-1800 (London: Sotheby's, 1987), 231-254.

Other narratives:

• Inventory no. 19978 - Former Display Label
• Pair of planetaria
• Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory
• Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925
• Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments
• Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection

Related Objects:

• Inventory No. 14209, "Terrestial Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1725" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 14776, "Sector, Attributed to Elias or John Allen, London, c. 1620-30" [1925-43], Allen, Elias
• Inventory No. 14946, "Rectangular Protractor, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 15386, "Ptolemaic Armillary Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 16400, "Plotting Scale, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 16699, "Circular Bubble Spirit Level, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 17260, "Screwbarrel Microscope, with Compass Microscope and Accessories, by James Wilson?, English, c. 1706" [1925-43], Wilson, James
• Inventory No. 17420, "Graphometer, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 17611, "Parallel Ruler, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18126, "Compound Microscope, by John Marshall, London, c. 1715" [1925-43], Marshall, John
• Inventory No. 18184, "Alidade, English, c. 1696" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18184, "Plane Table by John Worgan, London, c. 1696" [1925-43], Worgan, John
• Inventory No. 18872, "Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1720" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18922, "Set of Drawing Instruments, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 19978, "Copernican Planetarium, Attributed to John Rowley, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 20020, "Gregorian Reflecting Telescope with Stand, English, c. 1710" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 20028, "Steelyard, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 20795, "Pulley Blocks, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 21777, "Set of Geometric Solids, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 22252, "Copernican Armillary Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 22258, "Copernican Armillary Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 22318, "Telescope Micrometer Eyepiece, English, c. 1710" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 22409, "Globe and Accessories, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 22764, "Spirit Level, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 23106, "Gunter's Sector, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 23264, "Pair of Convex and Concave Mirrors in Mount, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 23348, "Globe, English?, Early 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 23976, "Refracting Telescope, English, c. 1690" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 24303, "Trigonometrical Demonstration Spheres, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 25257, "Quadrant, by Henry Sutton, London, 1658" [1925-43], Sutton, Henry
• Inventory No. 25281, "Sector, by John Rowley?, London, c.1700", Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 25400, "Globe, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 26114, "Quadrant, by Henry Sutton, London, 1660" [1925-43], Sutton, Henry
• Inventory No. 26702, "Circular Protractor, by J. Sisson, London, c. 1730" [1925-43], Sisson, J.
• Inventory No. 27956, "Slide Rule, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 28201, "Proportional Compasses, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John, Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 28877.1, "Worm-Jack, Attributed to John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 28955, "Perspective Glass Telescope, English, c. 1725" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 29239, "Plane-Table Alidade, English, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 29666, "Refracting Telescope, by John Marshall, London, c. 1715" [1925-43], Marshall, John
• Inventory No. 29920, "Refracting Telescope by James Wilson, London, c.1700" [1925-43], Wilson, James
• Inventory No. 30120, "Tools, English?, c. 1700?" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 30151, "Ruler with Pencil and Dividers, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 30755, "Pocket Balance, English?, Early 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 30819, "Set of Microscope Slides, by James Wilson?, English, c. 1704" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 31785, "Quadrant, by J. Rowley, English, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 31922, "Dialling Sphere, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 32319, "Parallelogram Protractor, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 47160, "Gunner's Rule, by John Rowley, London, c. 1700" [1925-43], Rowley, John
• Inventory No. 50368, "Set of Military Tokens for Demonstrating Battalion Firing, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 68353, "Ptolemaic Planetarium, Attributed to John Rowley, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 28877.2, "Weight for Worm-Jack, English, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 70935, "Telescope Tube Cap?"
• Inventory No. 74169, "Plotting Scale, 5-inch, by S. Horseman, English, Early 18th Century" [1925-43], Horseman, S.
• Inventory No. 75945, "Camera Obscura, English, c. 1710" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 78216, "Scioptric Ball or Sky Optick, English?, Early 18th Century" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 80777, "Pulley Wheel, English?, c. 1700" [1925-43]
• Inventory No. 18184, "Ball and Socket Joint, English, c. 1696" [1925-43]