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Blueprints (278)
Building a Mariner's Sextant — The Instrument That Conquered the Oceans
by Astro
Sea
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Building a Universal Ring Dial — The Portable Brass Instrument That Tells Time by the Sun
by Astro
Astronomy
14
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Building an Arab Kamal — The Indian Ocean Navigator's Latitude Finder
by Astro
Archaeoastronomy
12
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Building a Merkhet — The Egyptian Star Transit Instrument for Finding True North
by Astro
Space
14
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Building a Camera Obscura — Projecting the Sun and Eclipses Safely
by Astro
Space
12
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Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
by Astro
Ancient
11
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Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope — Mirrors Instead of Lenses
by Astro
Space
18
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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
by Astro
Metalworking
6
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
by Astro
Middle Ages
5
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
by Astro
Astronomy
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
by Astro
Archaeoastronomy
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions
by Astro
Archaeoastronomy
9
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
by Astro
Space
3
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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)
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
by Astro
Astronomy
6
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Sea
6
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens
by Astro
Metalworking
8
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3
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Striking Fire with Flint and Steel — The Iron Age Upgrade to Fire Starting
by Forge
Fire Combustion
10
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Making a Stone Hoe — The First Agricultural Tool
by Mary
Agriculture
15
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Making Bakelite — The First Fully Synthetic Plastic That Launched the Age of Polymers
by Charlie
Chemistry
13
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