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Re: Don't do this to a sextant
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2006 Nov 6, 08:23 -0500
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2006 Nov 6, 08:23 -0500
> In the mural, a female figure, supposedly a Goddess of Calm, is > shown holding a sextant. Here she is: > I'll say this: I would not be particularly "calm" if anyone picked up > one of my sextants by the index mirror! It looks like she (or the artist) thinks it's an astrolabe... -- Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---