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Tellurion. World English Historical Dictionary

Tellurion. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tellurion or -ian. Also tellurium. [f. L. tellūs, tellūr-em the earth.] An apparatus illustrating the effect of the earth’s diurnal rotation and annual revolution and obliquity of axis in causing the alternations of day and night and the succession of the seasons; a simple kind of orrery.

1 1784.  W. Jones, Portable Orrery (ed. 2), II. 26. The knowledge of the nature and causes of the vicissitudes of the Seasons, Days and Nights, Eclipses, &c. the explication of which is seen by the other part of the Orrery, namely the Tellurian.

2 1831.  Mechanics’ Mag., XIV. 370/2. When the tellurian is to be used, the sign Cancer must be set toward the north.

3 1842.  Francis, Dict Arts, Tellurion, an instrument for showing the effect of the earth’s motions and the obliquity of her axis.

4 1891.  Cath. News, 24 Jan., 4/4. Irreverent persons echoed the inquisitive auditor’s query as to the uses of a tellurion.

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