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  <dc:title>Translated paper, 'Explication of the astronomical instrument, contrived by Signore Burattini in Poland' by Burattini</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Burattini describes an instrument consisting of a brass plate with two blades parallel to one another, 'each with seven brass nailes and beaten as much forward as backward; but before they are fastened, the blades must be hollowed'. The instrument also consists of 'two drawers [...] whose jonitures [jointures] enter exactly into the joniture of the two blades'. The instrument can be used to find the diameter of the planets. For original Italian paper, see CLP/8i/12.

Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments / Astronomy</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[17th Century]</dc:date>
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