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Here is a clearer explanation (to me at least), and easier to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant#The_.22Bris.22_Sextant
It looks like a clever idea for sun sights. Wikipedia says it's made
of microscope slides, and I suspect that we could make them to play
with easily enough.
A bit of string through a ``calibrated'' stick would make a compact
cross-staff, but this is way more compact than that.
Nels
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:48:11 -0800, Royer, Doug <> wrote:
> The 2nd link didn't work.
> Here's another:
> http://cassens-plath.de/catalog/sextantse.html
>
> When you get to this site click on the sris Emergency sextant heading.You
> may have to translate the text as it is in a Germanic language.
>
