Small mechanical model showing the orbit of a comet around the sun, with “The Comet of 1682, J. Rix, Fecit” inscription. John Rix was a London instrument maker who probably made this in anticipation of the return of Halley’s Comet in 1758.
Ref: Martin Beech, “Cometaria and the Demonstration of Kepler’s 1st and 2nd Laws,” Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 82 (2005): 29-33.
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