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History of Astronomical Instruments
Nature, 1956The 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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The WSPC Handbook of Astronomical Instrumentation
The WSPC Handbook of Astronomical Instrumentation, 2021D. Burrows, A. Wolszczan, A. Moore
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Astronomical Instruments, Renaissance
2018Although 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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Archaic Astronomical Instruments
2011The oldest astronomical instrument is the naked eye, with which the courses of the celestial objects were observed. Since time immemorial, people have noticed that the celestial bodies rise at the eastern horizon and set at the western horizon. They have also noticed that some stars never set and that all stars circle around a fixed point in the ...
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Lenghu on the Tibetan Plateau as an astronomical observing site
Nature, 2021Chunguang Zhang +2 more
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