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Re: Micrometer vernier
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2018 Apr 17, 11:00 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2018 Apr 17, 11:00 -0700
To avoid confusion, I'm not talking about historical sextants from a century ago which required a finely-engraved vernier for reading minutes from the sextant. I'm just talking about the small vernier next to the micrometer found on some modern sextants. Here's another image with this highlighted...
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