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Authority Cited: Orrery [Charles Boyle 4th Earl]
Author name and dates:  Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery (1674-1731)

BKG Bio-tweet: Soldier; MP; author; Royal Society Fellow; SJ cites in etym. for orrery; notes family patronage of sciences and the device
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• Prologue to The Fate of Capua in The works of Mr. Thomas Southerne. Volume the First. Containing, The Loyal Brother: Or, The Persian Prince. The Disappointment: Or, The Mother in Fashion. Sir Anthony Love Or, The Rambling Lady. The Wives Excuse: Or, Cuckolds make Themselves.; The works of Mr. Thomas Southerne. Volume the Second. Containing, The Maid's last Prayer, Or, Any, rather than fail. The Fatal Marriage, Or the Innocent Adultery. Oroonoko. The Fate of Capua. The Spartan Dame. 1721, London: printed for J. Tonson, B. Tooke, M. Wellington, and W. Chetwood.; pack; squeamish; [BKG Note: citation (likely transcription) error - both quotes are attributed to Southerne in the Dict.]
• Orrery (no work cited); orrery  [BKG Note: The Dict. text and a relevant extract of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for John Rowley (c.1668-1728) are given below.  SJ made "honorable mention" of three separate generations of the family: Charles Boyle, the 4th Earl; Charles' grandfather Roger Boyle, the 1st Earl, and in the 1773 Dict., Charles' son John Boyle, the 5th Earl.]

​The Dict. text reads: ORRERY (O'RRERY) n.s. An instrument which by many complicated movements represents the revolutions of the heavenly bodies. It was first made by Mr. Rowley, a mathematician born at Litchfield, and so named from his patron the earl of Orrery: by one or other of this family almost every art has been encouraged or improved.  
The Oxford DNB states: "About 1712 Orrery commissioned from Rowley a mechanical model of the earth–sun–moon system, of a type constructed by the clockmaker George Graham, but larger and more sophisticated. Perhaps as a pun on the word ‘horary’, Rowley named it an ‘orrery’, still the current term for a mechanical planetarium."

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