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Re: "Gambey sextants"
From: UNK
Date: 2001 Apr 27, 10:37 AM
From: UNK
Date: 2001 Apr 27, 10:37 AM
Will O'Neil [mailto:will.oneil@pobox.com] asked: > In the 1850s, the U.S. Navy's Depot of Charts and Instruments (headed > by Matthew F. Maury) bought "Gambey sextants" at least twice from E & GW > Blunt in New York. (Also on the shopping list were a number of other > instruments as well as books and charts, bought for exploration > expeditions.) > > Does anyone have any notion of what a "Gambey sextant" may have been? Henri-Prudence Gambey (1787-1847) was a preeminent maker of instruments large (for astronomical observatories) and small (for surveying and seagoing use), based in Paris. -- Peter Smith