Contact Peter Grimwood Orreries UK – Get in touch to order an orrery from my current models. Orreries UK: Orrery design & manufacture Peter Grimwood – Peter Grimwood produces museum quality Orreries and other astronomical models.
Get in touch!
To order an orrery from my current models, or to discuss your requirements for a custom design, use the form below and let me know what you would like your model to demonstrate, how big you would like it to be, the design of the dial(s) and anything else that comes to mind. Or if you have any other question, just drop me a message. You can also email me at: peter@orreries.co.uk.
Contact Peter Grimwood Orreries UK – Get in touch to order an orrery from my current models. Orreries UK: Orrery design & manufacture Peter Grimwood – Peter Grimwood produces museum quality Orreries and other astronomical models.
Contact Peter Grimwood Orreries UK – Get in touch to order an orrery from my current models. Orreries UK: Orrery design & manufacture Peter Grimwood – Peter Grimwood produces museum quality Orreries and other astronomical models.
Peter Grimwood produces museum quality Orreries and other astronomical models
These range from a Solar System hidden inside a hollow silver ball only 4 inches across, to a ceiling mounted motorised version where the longest arm sweeps out a four metre diameter circle.
There is a range of current models, some are stocked, others are made to order. Commissions for new designs are welcomed, though these will take longer as the design work will need to be done first. Learn more about orreries. WHAT IS AN ORRERY?
A model that shows the planets revolving round the Sun, normally without any planetary rotation or axial tilt, is called a Planetarium.
WHY ARE THEY CALLED ORRERIES?
In 1712 an instrument maker called John Rowley built an Earth/Moon/Sun model for Charles Boyle, who was the fourth earl of Orrery. John Rowley, most probably in an attempt to flatter his patron, named the device “an Orrery” and the name stuck!