selenoscopen.
/sɪˈliːnəʊskəʊp/ rare.
An instrument for observing the moon.
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1651 R. Child Large Let. in S. Hartlib Legacie 80 The Seleno-scope, which discovereth Mountaines in the Moone, divers stars, and new planets, never seene till our dayes.
1655 R. Child in S. Hartlib Legacy (ed. 3) 161 They are found by the Selnescope [sic] to increase and decrease as the Moon doth.
1660 R. H. in F. Bacon New Atlantis ii. 68 He next showed me a selenoscope to view the Moon.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1653 (1955) III. 85 Mr. Henshaw..presented me with a Selene-scope.
1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. iv. 71 Selenoscope, to demonstrate the kinematic effects of the three hypotheses of the moon's motion, as a satellite of the earth.
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