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TYCHO BRAHE'S SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS.
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who has described a meridian circle for observing the sun,[1]


Armillæ a Equatoriæ Maximæ.

while smaller circles became extensively used, particularly

  1. Sédillot, Mémoire, p. 196; Wolf's Geschichte der Astronomie, p. 132.