astroscope

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AS'TROSCOPE, noun [Gr. a star, and to view.] An astronomical instrument, composed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations, with their stars, are delineated, by means of which the stars may be easily known.
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