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单词 Mural quadrant
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Mural quadrant

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Mural instrument

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Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant
Mural quadrant constructed as a frame mounted on a wall.  This instrument was made by John Bird in 1773 and is in the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford.
 A Bird Mural Quadrant was for many years the main instrument of the Mannheim Observatory, shown here installed
Ulugh Beg's mural sextant, constructed in Samarkand, Uzbekistan during the 15th century.

A mural instrument is an angle measuring device mounted on or built into a wall. For astronomical purposes, these walls were oriented so they lie precisely on the meridian. A mural instrument that measured angles from 0 to 90 degrees was called a mural quadrant.

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