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selenoscope rare.|sɪˈliːnəʊskəʊp|
Also 7 erron. seleniscope.
[f. Gr. σελήν-η moon + -scope.]
An instrument for observing the moon.
1651R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 70 The Selenoscope, which discovereth mountains in the Moon, divers Stars, and new Planets, never seen till our days. Ibid. 161 They are found by the Selnescope [sic] to increase and decrease as the Moon doth. 1660R. H. New Atlantis ii. 68 He next showed me a selenoscope to view the Moon. a1700Evelyn Diary 9 June 1653, Mr. Henshaw..presented me with a seleniscope. 1876Catal. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. 71 Selenoscope, to demonstrate the kinematic effects of the three hypotheses of the moon's motion. |