Anno MDCCLXXIV

TheClockmaker’sOrrery

A Mechanical Theatre of the Heavens

Wrought in brass after the manner of the eighteenth-century instrument makers: eight wanderers turn about a glowing Sun, each at its true period. Strike a planet to read its cartouche, or grasp the crank of the great wheel below to wind the heavens forward and back.

Fecit J. Whitlock · an imagined maker

The Annual Train

One turn of the great wheel is one year. Drag its ebony crank, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to wind the heavens.