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← HistoryWhich adjustment compensated instrument error when using historical astrolabes?
A)Accounting to known star offsets
B)Averaging readings across multiple uses✓
C)Compensating for atmospheric refraction
D)Correcting solar declination errors
💡 Explanation
Averaging multiple readings increased accuracy because it reduced random error, a statistical mechanism, rather than calibrating parts perfectly; therefore random errors averaged out with repetitions rather than producing systematic precision errors alone.
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