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🪐 Brass Orrery: Gear Ratios vs Kepler's True Sky - 2D Plan View

A top-down plan of a brass orrery: draw the tooth-count gear train for each planet, watch uniform brass circles drift away from Kepler's true ellipses, and read the equation-of-centre error live.

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Brass Orrery: Gear Ratios vs Kepler's True Sky - 2D Plan View ↗ Open standalone
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A top-down plan of a brass orrery: draw the tooth-count gear train for each planet, watch uniform brass circles drift away from Kepler's true ellipses, and read the equation-of-centre error live.

OrreryKepler's LawsGear RatiosCelestial MechanicsCanvas

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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