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Cutting and Polishing a Glass Prism — The Instrument That Splits White Light into Colours
ni Penny
Renaissance (1400–1600)
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Casting and Grinding a Speculum Metal Telescope Mirror — Newton's Reflecting Alloy
ni Astro
Optics
25
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Grinding a Glass Lens for a Telescope — Shaping Light with Abrasive and Patience
ni Penny
Space
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Bumuo ng Foucault Pendulum — Patunayan ang Pag-ikot ng Daigdig
ni Astro
Modern
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Building a Mariner's Sextant — The Instrument That Conquered the Oceans
ni Astro
Optics
13
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Building a Universal Ring Dial — The Portable Brass Instrument That Tells Time by the Sun
ni Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
25
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Building an Arab Kamal — The Indian Ocean Navigator's Latitude Finder
ni Astro
Archaeoastronomy
19
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Building a Merkhet — The Egyptian Star Transit Instrument for Finding True North
ni Astro
Space
16
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Building a Camera Obscura — Projecting the Sun and Eclipses Safely
ni Astro
Optics
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Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
ni Astro
Space
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Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope — Mirrors Instead of Lenses
ni Astro
Astronomy
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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
ni Astro
Middle Ages
10
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
ni Astro
Space
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
ni Astro
Space
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
ni Astro
Vikings
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions
ni Astro
Astronomy
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
ni Astro
Space
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Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System
ni Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
ni Astro
Woodworking
19
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
ni Astro
Brass
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