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About A Journalist Lecturing on the Orrery
A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, or the full title, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, is a 1766 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting a lecturer giving a demonstration of an orrery – a mechanical model of the Solar System – to a small audience. It is now in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. The painting preceded his similar An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.
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