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Scientific instruments

19 Topics

  • Calculating machines
  • Camera obscura
  • Clocks and watches
  • Double horizontal dial
  • Globes
  • Hydrometer
  • Lenses
  • Microscopes
  • Napier's bones
  • Pantograph ("Parallelogram")
  • Protractor
  • Scotoscopes
  • Slide rule
  • Spectacles
  • Spy-glasses
  • Terrella
  • Thermometer
  • Tube spectacles
  • Wren's perspective drawing instrument

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