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How to use sextants in a sentence

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They had sextants, early microscopes, clocks, thermometers, and barometers.
On shelves and bookcases around the flat I could see antique spanners, old sextants, shiny brass things, burnished steel telescopes.
Angular measurements are made using sextants, theodolites, quadrants and station pointers.
Until recently, oceanographers gathered much of their data from solitary vessels that they navigated by means of stars and sextants.
And it's equally true now, even though satellites have taken over from sextants, the Sun and fixed stars as the navigation aids of choice.
Some sextants used a mirror to reflect the horizon as one half of the view for the sighting and the celestial object as the other.
Cook carried an early nautical almanac and brass sextants, but no chronometer on the first voyage.
This treatment is covered up to 6 sextants or 4 quadrants or up to 28 teeth per calendar year.
The problem is very complex, and navigators continued to use sextants and other astrolabes to find their location at sea.
These units incorporated mechanical gyroscopes and while the aircraft were fitted with sextants, it was the INUs that became the primary means of navigation.
His expedition required the development and assemblage of a network of geographic and other technologies, including credit systems, ships, maps, and sextants.
The correct amount of brightness through the sextants optical light paths is controlled by means of swing in graded filters 4 for the index and 3 for the horizon mirrors.
To prevent eye damages, the correct amount of brightness through the sextants optical light paths is controlled by means of swing in graded filters, 3 for the index and 2 for the horizon mirrors.
Imagine trying to survey Canada Basin, with depths exceeding 3.5 kilometres, with weighted ropes or lead lines and sextants, as hydrographers did over a century ago charting the world's waterways, fresh and marine.
By the late 18th century, navigators replaced their prior instruments with octants and sextants.
Like the similar astronomical sextants, they could be used in a vertical plane or made adjustable for any plane.
As standards for what counted as a mappable fact rose, knowledge that didn't meet those standards — secondhand travellers' reports, guesses hazarded without compasses or sextants — was discarded and lost.
The so-called mariner's astrolabe was later supplanted by sextants.
At any stage during the voyage, dependable almanacs, sextants, and chronometers made it possible to ascertain the ship's position with great precision through observation of the altitudes and azimuths of a few familiar stars.
Satellite telephones have replaced the cumbersome SSBs, while the GPS has seen sextants, chronometers and astro-navigation tables pushed to the back of the cupboard.
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The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
He was talking boisterously, and heaping his sea-boots and sextants back into his chest.
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