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Grinding a Glass Lens for a Telescope — Shaping Light with Abrasive and Patience
by Penny
Optics
84
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Making Tin-Lead Solder — The Ancient Alloy That Joins Metals Without a Forge
by Peter
Metal
48
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Building a Foucault Pendulum — Proving Earth Rotates with a Swinging Weight
by Astro
Modern
104
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Building a Mariner's Sextant — The Instrument That Conquered the Oceans
by Astro
Modern
66
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Building a Universal Ring Dial — The Portable Brass Instrument That Tells Time by the Sun
by Astro
Brass
75
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Building an Arab Kamal — The Indian Ocean Navigator's Latitude Finder
by Astro
Middle Ages
65
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Building a Merkhet — The Egyptian Star Transit Instrument for Finding True North
by Astro
Egyptians
195
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Building a Camera Obscura — Projecting the Sun and Eclipses Safely
by Astro
Ancient
850
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Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
by Astro
Astronomy
53
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Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope — Mirrors Instead of Lenses
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
90
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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
by Astro
Middle Ages
47
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
by Astro
Middle Ages
55
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
by Astro
Vikings
64
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
by Astro
Vikings
60
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
72
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
64
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4
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Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
70
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3
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
by Astro
Middle Ages
90
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6
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Brass
69
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7
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens
by Astro
Bronze
82
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3
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Warping a Treadle Loom — Measuring, Beaming, and Threading Warp for Broadcloth
by Tex
Middle Ages
33
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Burling and Mending Woven Cloth — Cleaning and Repairing Fabric Before Fulling
by Tex
Cleaning
65
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Pressing Broadcloth in a Screw Press — Hot and Cold Finishing for Lustre
by Tex
Middle Ages
39
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Raising the Nap and Shearing Woolen Cloth — Teasel Napping and Cropping Shears
by Tex
Middle Ages
69
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