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Re: Beating a Dead Horse (aka Worley's Sextant)
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2014 Jan 22, 00:49 -0800
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2014 Jan 22, 00:49 -0800
Brad, you wrote :
<<...In Richard Dunn's book (Sextants at Greenwich....) a description of the C. Plath mechanism is given right next to the Heath Hezzanith mechanism.
As expected, they are different.>>
Yes, but they also did a version that wasn't different from the Heath mechanism. See Figures 3 and 4 here: http://sextantbook.com/2012/11/
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New zealand
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