Large Vintage Ship Instrument Antique Brass Marine Nautical Sextant W. Box
 
Item No :-   NS 06
 
Weight :- 1 kg 700 grams(Approx)
 
Size :-    
6 inches
 
Description :- Vintage Nautical Heavy Brass Made for Royal Navy Sextant. Charming sextant as used by Victorian explorers and surveyors. Intricate and semi-functional, sextant has all the pieces needed to shoot the sun. A sextant defined latitude. A clock longitude. Defining the angle of Sun and Stars with the horizon was an important way to navigate and survey. A beautiful intricate little instrument with an interesting and ancient history. Great to study the science of sextant but not for serious use.
 
Short Product History:- A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument used to measure the angle between any two visible objects. The principle of the instrument was first implemented around 1730 by John Hadley (1682–1744) and Thomas Godfrey (1704–1749) but it was also found later in the unpublished writings of Isaac Newton (1643–1727). The history of these and related instruments, and their forerunners, may be found in the article on reflecting instruments.
 
 
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