There are 45 degrees in an octant because an octant is 1 eighth of a circle, and a circle is 360 degrees, and 45 degrees is one eighth of 360.
One eighth of a circle.
The octant was invented by British mathematician and astronomer John Hadley in 1730. Hadley's octant was a navigation instrument used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies, helping sailors to determine their position at sea.
5,600 degrees Celsius.
It is 550 degrees at the centre of the Sun.
Most of it is at 180 degrees.
There is 45 degrees in an octant. This is equivalent to one eighth of a circle. Since a circle has 360 degrees you would divide this number by 8.
An octant is 1 eighth of a circle because it is 45 degrees
One eighth of a circle.
When navigators wanted to be able to measure angles that were larger than about 60 degrees and the older octant wasn't long enough to do it. An octant has an arc of one eighth of a circle. (From the Latin prefix "octo" for eight.) The device uses a mirror as a doubling tool, so in theory an octant could measure one fourth of a circle, or 90 degrees, but there's some overlap in the mechanism and you don't get the full 90 degrees. The sextant is one-SIXTH of a circle (Latin "sextus" for six), and with doubling (and the overlap) allows you to measure more than 90 degrees.
Isaac Newton invented the reflecting octant in 1699.
The octant was invented by British mathematician and astronomer John Hadley in 1730. Hadley's octant was a navigation instrument used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies, helping sailors to determine their position at sea.
Octant
Quadrant
One eighth of a circle.
Octant
The Hadley Octant is a navigational instrument used for measuring angles in celestial navigation, specifically to determine latitude and longitude at sea. It consists of a wooden frame with a graduated scale and a pivoting arm (the octant) that can be aligned with celestial bodies. By sighting a star or the sun through a telescope and reading the angle on the scale, navigators can calculate their position. The design allows for accurate measurements of up to 90 degrees, making it a crucial tool for sailors before the advent of modern navigation technologies.
There are many. All polyhedra have ONLY flat faces but many other shapes have flat faces such as a hemisphere or an octant or a cylinder.