The Odd Chair Company – Cornwall Commercial photographer Simon Burt

The Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British art is an educational charity committed to promoting original, world-class research in to the history of British art and architecture of all periods. The centre collaborates closely with The Yale Centre for British Art and is part of Yale University.

You might recognise a mechanical model of the solar system, one that that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons. But did you know it’s called an astrological orrery?