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Re: Organoleptic puzzle
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2014 Mar 11, 15:01 -0700
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2014 Mar 11, 15:01 -0700
Hi Andrew,
Peter, can you provide more information on that pre-telescope trick reference? It is exactly a quadrant that I am trying to build
I'll try to find more detail tonight, but apparently it was an innovation of Tycho's, the "peg and slit" sight. There's a drawing in this paper:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986JBAA...96..353C
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986JBAA...96..353C
Cheers,
Peter
Peter
