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Re: Another crazy sextant pic
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Oct 25, 22:31 -0400
Don Seltzer
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Oct 25, 22:31 -0400
The caption claims it to be Charles Darwin's sextant, but actually I believe it belonged to David Livingstone.
Here is a better view of it.
http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/themes/encounters/gallery/resource/?id=304
http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/themes/encounters/gallery/resource/?id=304
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Paul Saffo <NoReply_PaulSaffo@fer3.com> wrote:
See this link in the LA Times, the latest in all the chit-chat about the USNA "teaching" CelNav: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-celestial-navigation-20151025-story.html
Note the pic of the sextant... the scope has been screwed in backwards!
