The little instrument used to draw up this catalogue.

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The daye folowynge Iesus wolde goo into Galile and founde Philip and sayde vnto him folowe me. John 1:43 TYN

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Star Tales - Reticulum (ianridpath.com) A small southern constellation, introduced by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to commemorate the reticle in the eyepiece of his small telescope with which he catalogued the southern stars from the Cape of Good Hope in 1751–52.

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