In Popular Media
- An orrery appears in Aughra's observatory in The Dark Crystal.
- An orrery is used to determine when total eclipses occur in Pitch Black.
- The Orrery is an artificial construct consisting of life-sized planets and a sun in Green Lantern: New Guardians.
- A pair of large orreries appear as architectural features and plot elements in John Crowley's novel Little, Big.
Read more about this topic: Orrery
Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or media:
“What’s wrong, a little pavement sickness?”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)