There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the ...

With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That is why modern ships are equipped with technology such as radar and a ...

There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, referring to tables, knowledge of the ...

Sextant Global High Income Fund earns a Low Process Pillar rating. The primary detractor from the rating is the parent firm's five-year retention rate of 64%, which suggests it could do more to ...

Qu’est-ce qu’un sextant et comment ça marche ? Qui a inventé le sextant ? On vous en dit plus sur cette invention qui a ...

J.-C.; Héron d'Alexandrie (I er siècle) en fait la description. Toutefois, le sextant moderne fut inventé dans les années 1730 par deux personnes indépendamment l’une de l’autre: John Hadley ...

An artificial horizon for sea use has been wanted for the last hundred years; in fact, ever since the sextant came into general use. It is a matter of common occurrence for mist or fog to obscure ...

The Cayman Islands National Museum recently received a historic sextant, almanac and a spyglass belonging to the late Captain ...

Sextant International Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The largest contributor to the rating is the fund's excellent long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five ...

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Un sextant est un instrument de navigation permettant de relever la hauteur angulaire d'un astre au-dessus de l'horizon. Il est utilisé pour faire le point hors de vue de terre (voir l'article : ...