John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey independently built the octant (which became the sextant later)
i guess planets
i guess planets
Nobody knows where the sextant was invented... It is possibly invented where a English people live. like probably Great Britain or Europe. --..................................--
by using it
you can find sextant on history.com
you use a sextant to navigate.
you draw a sextant by looking at googler in the images.
A sextant is a navigational instrument that sights upon the stars to determine a ship's position. This instrument was crucial to naval navigation until global positioning became a reality in the late 20th century. "Henry the Navigator prized his sextant while on his journeys to the New World." "The ship's position is determined by the use of the ship's navigator using a sextant."
the sextant helped me navagate my way to alaska
as sextant consists a graduated circular arc that is of 60 degree so, arc forms one-sixth of a circle ,hence the name sextant
how many years that the sextant become a symbol of navigation
John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey independently built the octant (which became the sextant later)
The sextant
The sextant
Yes Christopher Columbus did use a sextant along with a compass, ampoletta, and a cross staff.
A sextant