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Re: The Big Sextant Manufacturers
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 08:08 +0200
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 08:08 +0200
jean-philippe planas wrote: > In France we had POULAIN (from Montrouge) sextants which were a good > design with surprising legs on both side wich enabled to store the > sextant in its transit box in a position where you could directly grab > it by the handle for use. It enabled to store it "upside down with > respect to almost any other brand. Those 'surprising legs' can also be found on most surveyor's sextants. The surveyor's sextants have an additional handle that screws into the normal handle perpendicularly and makes it easier to take horizontal angles. With the additional handle in place it is not possible to lay down the instrument in a normal way (e.g. with the handle down) and that is why the additional set of legs was introduced. The Observator I own even has one of these legs right in front of the telescope, which is quite odd. You will find it on my web-site: http://www.dehilster.info/instrumenten/sextantgeodetic/index.html Nicol�s --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
