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Ingenious Renaissance Automata and Optics
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Vessel where metals and alchemy met transformative heat
  • 2. Architectural timekeeper preceding modern clocks
  • 3. Lens innovation enhancing dual-distance vision
  • 4. Renaissance science explaining light’s curious behavior
  • 5. Mechanical draughtsman’s tool for scalable replication
  • 6. Rotating mass storing kinetic energy in machines
  • 7. Early natural rubber exploited for waterproofing experiments
  • 12. Cryptic term applied retrospectively to secretive contraptions
  • 15. Engineering marvel channeling vital waters afar
  • 18. Measurement method for terrestrial distances traveled
  • 19. Ancient artillery ingeniously refined in Renaissance warfare
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  • 8. Primitive counting stones influencing computation tools
  • 9. Navigational charts guiding Renaissance mariners’ quests
  • 10. Visual trickery technique from the era of illusion
  • 11. Rare mechanism for controlling water flow in mills
  • 13. Lens type revolutionizing lighthouse illumination
  • 14. Celestial sphere model tracing the heavens' arcs
  • 16. Latin for wondrous oddities or curious inventions
  • 17. Inventive Renaissance device illustrating rotational inertia
  • 20. Not a Renaissance invention, but confusing in astrophysical context

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