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Astronomical transit telescope, made by David Rittenhouse, ca. 1769.
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Color image of telescope.

Credit: Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society

An exceptional craftsman, David Rittenhouse made telescopes, surveyor's instruments, and orreries–clock-work mechanisms that showed the relative positions of the planets–of tremendous beauty and precision.

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