The astroscope is the invention of Willliam Shuckhard, formerly professor of mathematics at Tubingen, who published a treatise expressly on it in 1698.
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Astroscope
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Amid all his exacting toil with "Mural arch Or zenith sector, or the quadrant's limb," with telescope and astroscope, with planetarium, with lunarium and orrery, calculating the reciprocal attraction and repulsion among the heavenly bodies, it is not surprising that he could get his orrery and Orra White a good deal mixed up, not, finding attraction without repulsion among earthly bodies, that he should get confused by conflicting facts and turn to his assistant for an explanation of this puzzling phenomena.
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There is also a collection of "Penny Arcade" features, such as mutoscopes, cailoscopes, astroscopes, and a "life-size Esmeralda Fortune Teller."
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An advertisement on the last page stated that the 'astroscope' was made by the optician James Mann, while the 'astronomical instrument' was made by Thomas Heath.
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