Sextant by Artesania
Sextant by Artesania
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Brand: Artesania
Product Code: 332021
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65.98€
Ex Tax: 55.45€
The sextant was designed for maritime navigation to determine the angle between the sun and the horizon. Invented in the 1930s by John Hadley (1682-1744), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey (1704-1749), an American inventor, it quickly replaced the astrolabe and the octant as the principal instrument used for navigation. A sextant is made up of a small telescope, to focus on the horizon, two mirrors (reflecting the image of the sighted object), shades (for the sun), a moving arm and a scaled arc. The scale of a sextant has a length of ? of a circle (60º), hence the sextant's name
Antiqued brass sextant and rosewood box with fine brass inlay decoration
 
 
Measures: High: 3.00 x Length: 10.00 x Width: 6.00 cm
 
Weight: 0.42 Kg
 
Made in Spain

Delivery time 15 days

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