Each era kept what worked and added one thing the next could not do without. Read the column top to bottom and today’s observatory assembles itself.
| Era | Generation | What it added | The lesson it left | From the record |
|---|
Comparable instruments, shared units, open records, federation without absorption: each lesson in this atlas is a rule the Observatory Protocol writes down, so any instrument can keep it.
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