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wire micrometer
wire micrometer n. a micrometer used in a telescope, having horizontal and vertical wires at the focus of the eyepiece.Cf. Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1717) 30 604: ‘Mr. Gascoigne was the first that measured the Diameters of the Planets, &c. by a Micrometer’, quoting a letter of Gascoigne's dated 25 Jan. 1642.
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1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 536 The common wire micrometer is peculiarly adapted for measuring differences of right ascension and declination of celestial objects.
1836 F. W. Simms Principal Math. Instruments (ed. 2) 41 A delicate wire micrometer attached to the eye-end of the telescope, by which the distances of the staff from the instrument are accurately determined.
1922 H. S. Jones Gen. Astron. ix. 221 Determination of Diameters of Planets... The wire micrometer is generally uses, the wires being placed tangentially to the two limbs of the planet and then crossed over.
2002 W. M. Jackson in C. Baker Absolutism & Sci. Revol. 129 Gascoigne is generally admitted to be the inventor of the wire micrometer and of the attachment of this device to the interior of the eyepiece of a telescope.
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