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Sextant (Dorling Kindersley)

Sextant, optical instrument used for the measurement of angular distance between any two objects. The sextant was invented independently, in about...

Art (quotations): Art: We hold a sextant in…

We hold a sextant in our hands, our eyes look straight ahead, our minds are taut as a bow, and we order our work as the world orders creation, the...

Navigation (Richard Pasley/Stock Boston Inc.)

For celestial navigation the navigator uses a sextant and a chronometer. The sextant is a double-reflecting instrument that measures the angle...

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- navigational instrument: a navigational instrument incorporating a telescope and an angular scale that is used to work out latitude and longitude.

	Windows Live® Search Results Sextant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A sextant is an instrument generally used to measure the altitude of a celestial object above the horizon. Making this measurement is known as sighting the object, shooting the ... Sextant Properties Estate agents specialising in rural French property. Includes buying information, areas guides and new developments. SEXTANT GROUP The SEXTANT Group, founded in 1991 by a multi-disciplinary group of scientists, works at local, national and international levels and has increasingly specialised ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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