Tellurion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An apparatus that shows how the movement of the earth on its axis and around the sun causes day and night and the seasons.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. an apparatus for exhibiting the mathematical relations of the earth, in which the principles of orthogonal projection are applied.
  • n. An instrument for showing in what manner the causes operate which produce the succession of day and night and the changes of the seasons: a kind of orrery.
  • Word Usage
    "A tellurion will not teach the changes of the seasons; bundles of splints, notation; nor black-board examples, the law of agreement; unless these are brought under the child's mental apprehension."
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