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5122013131947734Code 2881 Antique planetariumRare and particular antique planetarium dated back to the second half of the 800 and probably made by Delamarche. On a turned and ebonized wooden base is mounted a system composed of two circles in paper with the signs of the solstices and equinoxes , and a horizontal circle which bears the printed months of the year and the signs of the zodiac ; within these circles there is the reproduction of the Earth and the Moon (wooden) that can rotate through a pulley system around the Sun, represented by a wooden sphere. The other planets are connected to the central axis through brass arms and represented by wooden disks; we find , starting at the position closest to the sun : an unnamed planet (but almost certainly Mercury) , Venus, Earth and the Moon, Mars, another small planet with no name (it could be one of the satellites of Mars discovered in 1877 ) , Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Obviously there is not Pluto, discovered in 1930. Height 31 cm - inches 12.20, diameter 20 cm - inches 7.87.
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Code 2881 Antique planetarium
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