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Arcane Instruments of Bygone Craft
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  • 1. Arcane tool quantifying area by tracing irregular plane figures
  • 2. Not a tool, but a hefty Scottish relic once by warriors wielded
  • 3. Historic instrument for recording angular displacements of distant objects
  • 4. Obsolete device to read stars’ time in darkness
  • 5. Ancient sky calculator once guiding mariners’ celestial quests
  • 8. Sextant’s predecessor measuring altitude via a quarter circle
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  • 6. Surveyor’s archaic theodolite cousin with rapid distance reckoning
  • 7. Water-driven device creating compressed air in medieval smithies
  • 9. Pivoting ring apparatus stabilizing nautical instruments aboard ships
  • 10. An old manometer variant, quietly measuring vapor pressures
  • 11. Navigational relic slicing the horizon in sixty degrees
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