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Astronomy
35 blueprints available • 17 subcategories
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Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
by Astro
Astronomy
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Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope — Mirrors Instead of Lenses
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
76
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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
by Astro
Middle Ages
43
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
by Astro
Middle Ages
46
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
by Astro
Vikings
49
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
by Astro
Vikings
51
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
67
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
59
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Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
55
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3
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
by Astro
Middle Ages
67
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Brass
53
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7
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens
by Astro
Bronze
61
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3
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Artemis II - JPL Horizons Flight Data
by Astro
Astronomy
557
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Carving a Portable Roman Sundial — Hemispherical Scaphe
by Penny
Romans
93
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Hazardous
Greek Sundial — Carving a Hemispherical Sundial
by Penny
Archaic Greece
75
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