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dividing engine

Also known as ruling engine

device to mark graduations on measuring instruments

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Christopher Clavius

diffraction grating

optical telescope

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setting circles

mathematical instrument

thousandth of an inch

diffraction grating

William Stanley

1774 in science

Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach

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