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Re: Sextants with Polarizing filters
From: Yanni Nikopoulos
Date: 2006 Jan 26, 22:38 -0500

Actually "ortho" means vertical thus 90 degrees to the horizontal plane
Yanni
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Hamilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fogg" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: Sextants with Polarizing filters


> Thanks for that elucidation, Ken.
>
> In anyone is wondering, as I was, orthogonal means quite literally 'at a
> right angle' from the Greek 'ortho', meaning right, and 'gonia', meaning
> angle.
>
>

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