Celatone
The celatone was a device invented by Galileo Galilei to observe Jupiter's moons with the purpose of finding longitude on Earth. It took the form of a piece of headgear with a telescope taking the place of an eyehole.
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Using of celatone.
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Celatone by Matthew Dockrey. Museum at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, UK.
Modern versions
In 2013, Matthew Dockrey created a replica celatone, using notes from a version created by Samuel Parlour. From April 2014 to January 2015, Dockrey's celatone was on display in the Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, London.
gollark: Am I supposed to be seeing something other than an abstract color squiggle?
gollark: It's obviously the letters Qih81e.
gollark: Kind of worrying given that they're going into self-driving cars and stuff.
gollark: According to my calculations, you see, that would be bad.
gollark: I wonder if the neural networks trained for image recognition and stuff have similar types of weird glitch (obviously not exactly the same problems, but similar classes of thing).
See also
- Longitude prize
- Galilean moons
References
- Sobel, Dava (1995). Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Penguin. ISBN 0-14-025879-5.
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