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astronomical instruments

2016
Summary Instruments for making observations or measurements are described by various authors writing on astronomy, including Geminus and Claudius Ptolemy. With the exception of numerous sundials and a few meridians, no observational instruments survive.
G J Toomer, Alexander Jones
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Terahertz astronomical telescopes and instrumentation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2003
The terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum is of great importance for astrophysics. In fact, it is central to the whole field of experimental cosmology. This paper outlines the range of astrophysical problems that can be answered by observing at THz frequencies, describes some of the major THz astronomical telescopes that are being ...
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The Astronomical Instruments

2017
All too often the instruments and instrument makers are totally ignored in accounts of historical science, but they, too, played a major role in the study of asteroids. “Throughout the eighteenth century, instrument making continued to provide a route to status as a natural philosopher for its most elite practitioners.
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Cathedrals as Astronomical Instruments

Science, 1999
The Sun in the Church Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. J. L. Heilbron. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 376 pp. $35. ISBN 0-674-85433-0. Heilbron blends discussions of astronomy, religious architecture, and Catholic history to demonstrate that the Church's efforts to establish an ...
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Ancient Astronomical Instruments

2015
With the developments of ancient astronomy, ancient astronomical mechanical instruments were extensively used for measurements, computation, and demonstration. These instruments represented the combinational achievements of astronomy and mechanical engineering technology at the subjects’ eras.
Jian-Liang Lin, Hong-Sen Yan
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Astronomical and Astrophysical Instruments

1991
Great scientific advances are often bound up with the invention or introduction of new kinds of instruments. The telescope, the clock, the photographic plate, photometer, spectrograph and finally the entire arsenal of modern electronics each signalizes an epoch of astronomical investigation.
Albrecht Unsöld, Bodo Baschek
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The Myth of Astronomical Instrumentalism

1991
The central thesis of Paul Feyerabend’s paper “Realism and Instrumentalism” is that as well as general philosophical arguments for and against instrumentalism, there are specific scientific arguments in favor of the instrumentalist view. These scientific arguments have the following general form: a new theory realistically interpreted clashes with ...
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History of Astronomical Instruments

Nature, 1956
The History of the Telescope By Dr. Henry C. King. Pp. xvi + 456. (London: Charles Grifnn and Company, Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: U.S.A. Sky Publishing Corporation, 1955.) 50s.
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Astronomical Instruments, Renaissance

2018
Although not all the traditional instruments enjoyed a contemporaneous parabola of fortune, it is possible to include the following items in a sufficiently comprehensive Renaissance astronomical equipment list: the quadrant, the triquetrum, the astrolabe, the armillary sphere, the nocturnal, Jacob’s staff, the sextant, the equatorium, and the celestial
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Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau as an astronomical observing site

Nature, 2021
Chunguang Zhang, Xiaodian Chen, Licai Deng   +2 more
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