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Definition: UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENT |
UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENT1. (Astron.), a species of altitude and azimuth instrument, the peculiarity of which is, that the object end of the telescope is placed at right angles to the eye end, with a prism of total reflection at the angle, and the eye end constitutes a portion of the horizontal axis of the instrument, having the eyepiece at the pivot and in the center of the altitude circle, so that the eye has convenient access to both at the same time. |
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 | Ozanam's Universal Instrument. In: "Historical Account of the Plane Table" by A. M. Harrison, 1875. This is a handwritten unpublished manuscript. Library Call Number TA571 .H37 1875. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | A Universal Instrument. Methode de lever les plans et les cartes de terre et de mer : avec toutes sortes d'instrumens & sans instrumens. By Jacques Ozanam. 1750. Plate VIII, page 76. Call Number TA544 .O97 1750. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
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universal instrument | 35 |
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| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-n-r-r-s-s-t-t-u-u-v" | |
-5 letters: intermenstrual, ultrasensitive. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)U N I V E R S A L   I N S T R U M E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0049 0056 0045 0052 0053 0041 004C 0049 004E 0053 0054 0052 0055 004D 0045 004E 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)554843563952533546243485354525547394854 |
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