| 单词 | sextant |
| 例句 | The sextant is broken because I was playing with it and snapped off a piece. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Have you ever used a sextant, Mr. Bowditch?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That night he went on deck before the time for his watch, with his sextant. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The cross-staff is merely one of a series of instruments, such as the quadrant and the sextant, designed for measuring angles by taking sightings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Many Eurasian societies developed large sailing ships, some of them capable of sailing against the wind and crossing the ocean, equipped with sextants, magnetic compasses, sternpost rudders, and cannons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Schiaparelli is almost due east, and if my sextant and Phobos calculations are correct, I've got another 1030 kilometers to get there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That involved the invention of many new instruments for improved measurements on Earth and in the heavens—cross-staffs, sextants, quadrants—and it was driven by a new obsession with accuracy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He slammed Moore’s book shut, picked up his sextant and slate, and went topside. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Bowditch, sir, is it true that you let Johnny look through your sextant? Or was the little lubber lying to us?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, I knew approximately where they were, but the sextant had a narrow field of view, like looking down a rifle barrel, and I needed to know exactly which way to point it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, just after seven bells of the forenoon watch, Captain Prince came on deck with his sextant, ready to shoot the sun. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were three or four glass-fronted cabinets containing antique scientific instruments—brass microscopes, telescopes covered in green leather, sextants, compasses; it was clear why he wanted the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When Nat’s watch ended, he went below with a lantern to get his sextant. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Using an instrument called a sextant, the navigator can measure the height of the star above the horizon. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Everything seemed to be listed there—from hardtack to copper nails—from sextants to coffeepots. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Worsley’s navigational equipment was down to one compass, his sextant, and his tables—and of the twenty-four chronometers he had taken with him from London, he had only one remaining. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Not long after this, I really did see Eagle for the first time in a day, as it appeared as a tiny blinking light in my sextant. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the weeks that followed, he explained a lot of things to Elizabeth; sextants and logs, spyglasses and dividers. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the vast sextants and quadrants built by Tycho Brahe were simply enlarged sighting devices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Every day when he took his sightings with the sextant and calculated their position, the crew eagerly waited to hear how far they had traveled. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The castaway was to his mind an experienced sailor who, compass, chart and sextant in hand, knew how he found his way into trouble, if not how he would get out of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I wish some time I could look through a sextant.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Armed with sextant, chronometers, compass, and nautical tables, Frank Worsley, skipper of Endurance, had been able to calculate and plot their every position. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z For the next couple of orbits, I tried very hard to spot Eagle through my sextant, but I was unable to find it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we left the relative safety of earth orbit, we wanted to make sure that our navigational equipment was working properly, and that meant using our sextant to sight on two stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He leveled the sextant to catch the horizon, and started to bring the sun into focus. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Marina had to hold her sextant out of the hatch of her cabin into the icy wind so she could calculate which direction they should fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Braced against the mast of the Docker, he aligned his sextant with the horizon and “shot” the sun. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Once we found them, we focused an instrument called a sextant on them, and measured their direction precisely. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So I go out every night with a homemade sextant and sight Deneb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in his room, he took the sextant out of its case. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood, feet apart, swaying with the imaginary movement of the deck, and lifted the sextant. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned how to work the sextant, the compass, the slipstick, the abacus. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He hurried topside, fumbled his sextant out of its case, and dropped the case. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Tycho had just completed the construction of another very large sextant, and whenever the clouds cleared in the nights that followed, he concentrated his attention on the new star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She again fixed die sextant of her eye on the horizon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Inside was a brass sextant, possibly a hundred years old. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was carrying a brief case and a navigation instrument I knew to be a sextant. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The often brilliant and frequently droll writings of this sextet provided the foodie generation, led by Alice Waters, with the sextant needed to plot a new way of thinking about food in the US. Why American gastronomy owes so much to France 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Two weeks earlier he found a piece of a ship’s sextant. T Magazine: The Wading Game 2011-05-20T18:06:59Z And so, once more, to the great question of the age for entertainment cartographers, whose sextants and compasses hover uncertainly over grim developments in America’s first family. Lamar Odom on life support is the most tragic twist yet in the unending Kardashian drama 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z One thing I heard last night was they’re now teaching people in the Navy how to navigate by sextant again. “Science fiction cyber-war is here”: Alex Gibney on “Zero Days” and Stuxnet, the secret weapon that got away 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Throughout history, timepieces ranked with compasses and sextants as critical tools for explorers seeking to define the contours of the earth. Watches That Connect With a History of Exploration 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Unlike the captain, Mundy had no sextant and no working chronometer; instead, he relied on his wristwatch and a small compass. Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Left with a sextant, chronometer, Walkers Log and paper charts. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Display cases resembling old portholes and stacked chests revealed the accouterments of old-time shipboard journeys, from “hardtack” sailor biscuits to sextants and sundials. Elsinore in Denmark, Hamlet’s ‘Home,’ Is Having a Renaissance 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The nickel-plated Odell No. 2, an 1890s machine made in Chicago, looks like a cross between a meat slicer and a sextant. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Click! Clack! Ding! The American Typewriter’ at the New Britain Museum of American Art 2014-04-27T00:23:07Z The building itself is a stony colonial relic; inside its centuries-old confines, artifacts on display range from traditional costumes to sailors’ sextants. 36 Hours in St. Barts 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The 14 yachts have no computers, GPS or other modern technology and their crews will use sextants to navigate the 27,000 mile journey. Retro yachts set sail from Cowes for round-the-world race 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z The next morning, after 16 hours of flying with only a compass and sextant for direction, the pair spotted land. The harrowing, forgotten journey of the first transatlantic flight 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Fun as it is to watch Anne fiddle with his sextant, you almost prefer her scenes with her dreamy/scheme-y cousin, Mr. Elliot, who in this retelling is bracingly straightforward about his financial motives. Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The sextant replaced the astrolabe in the mid-1700s as the instrument for measuring the height of the stars above the horizon—to determine latitude and longitude. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But such was Worsley's genius with a sextant and a chronometer - maritime navigation instruments - there's high confidence in his calculated coordinates. Shackleton's Endurance: The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Ian Rivers, 55, set off from New York on 31 May using only a sextant and the stars to navigate to the Scilly Isles. Euro 2020: Ex-SAS Atlantic rower relying on text updates for final 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Mr Rivers, who will use a sextant and the stars to navigate, used nature as a guide when he escaped after being kidnapped while working in Syria. Ex-SAS soldier from Hereford set for solo row across Atlantic 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Where the Endurance went down is well known; the ship's captain Frank Worsley logged the position using a sextant and a theodolite. Will anyone ever find Shackleton's lost ship? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z “One of the officers got on a bridge with a sextant, and a wristwatch,” he said, adding that the officer was charting their position. Man who is Indiana’s oldest state employee retiring at 102 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The Germans shipped home a haul of astrolabes and sextants, elaborately decorated with dragons and other royal motifs. China: How science made a superpower 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z But for location, they had to rely on that most ancient of seafaring tools, the sextant. Chatham departure of first trans-Atlantic flight recalled 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z With GPS still in the future, the merchant seaman made his way around the globe the old-fashioned way, with a sextant. British sailor to mark 50th anniversary of circumnavigation 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Only radio communication is allowed; sextants are used for navigation. In 1969, or 2019, Sailing Round the World Alone Is Vexing 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The race involves solo sailors navigating with a sextant and paper maps, and communicating only occasionally with the outside world via short-wave radio. 73-year-old Frenchman wins solo round-the-world sailing race 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He is handy with a sextant, can call an owl and, by this telling, at least, was the first person to think of using the abbreviation "UFO." Review: 'Project Blue Book,' where 'X-Files' meets 'The Americans' 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Albert Read stood in the nose of the NC-4 fuselage for the 15-hour flight, taking readings with his sextant when he could, returning to a small desk below to make calculations. Chatham departure of first trans-Atlantic flight recalled 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z This meant that Lovell had to make star sightings with a sextant, and a gaseous cloud emanating from the nearby third stage obscured the view intermittently. Apollo 8, humans' first swing around the Moon, launched 50 years ago today. Here's how it went down. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z By the eighteenth century, some ships had become mobile labs in which instruments from sextants to chronometers were tested and improved, and ever more accurate sea charts plotted. Explorers at sea: centuries of science afloat 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z At least a decade ago, most younger people we know stopped wearing wristwatches, because they can just as easily tell the time using a sextant and sun dial, or by glancing at their smartphone. Ron Judd explains how to outsmart your smart technology 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The vessel’s astrolabe , an instrument used for navigation before the sextant was developed, is included among the artifacts. Treasures of famous shipwrecks on display in exhibit 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z It thus falls to Tami, less experienced but no slouch in the sailing department, to get them back on course, using little more than a sextant. Shailene Woodley's performance powers the evasive shipwreck-survival drama 'Adrift' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Skeletal remains discovered on the island in 1940 along with part of a shoe, a Benedictine bottle, and a sextant box are held up as evidence that she was there. Have we really found Amelia Earhart's bones? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Nearby was a part of a shoe they judged to be a woman’s, and a box manufactured in around 1918 that was designed to contain a sextant. New evidence in the search for Amelia Earhart 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Ms Jasanoff says she set out to explore Conrad’s world “with the compass of a historian, the chart of a biographer, and the navigational sextant of a fiction reader”, and these have served her well. Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Astrolabes, quadrants and the sextants that succeeded them, are just as important, though. The oldest mariner’s astrolabe yields to scientific scrutiny 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “But if the electronic system goes down, and you’re in the middle of the ocean,” she said, “you need charts and a sextant. Or you’re in trouble.” An ‘Epicenter’ for Charting Global Waters 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Bannon later became a navigator, guiding the ship — at times with a sextant when the electronic system lost contact with satellites — and writing reports. How Bannon’s Navy service during the Iran hostage crisis shaped his views 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Explorers have long filled in our understanding of the world, using and then discarding the sextant, the compass, MapQuest. Faultlines, black holes and glaciers: mapping uncharted territories 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z There is the lower equipment bay beneath the seats, where the navigational sextant and computer were located. Climb Inside Apollo 11 in Virtual Reality and 3D 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Just one example of many is that the US Naval Academy just resumed training officers to navigate by sextants. How technology made us hyper-capable – and helpless | Jonathan Coopersmith 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Naval Academy just resumed training officers to navigate by sextants. Your Smartphone Is Making You Dumber 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “I wanted to experience crossing the Atlantic the way that I did the first time, with a sextant, paper charts and a self-steering system — the old way,” Peyron said. Ocean Racers Brace for Solo Treks 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The United States Naval Academy has once again begun training midshipmen how to take their position from the stars with a sextant. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z For centuries, sailors used sextants to plot their location on the trackless sea, lining up stars in the sky to find their own place on Earth. Why Naval Academy students are learning to sail by the stars for the first time in a decade 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z But it’s only three hours of celestial navigation - so students won’t be skilled with sextants. Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Rogers said, adding, “You’re not even in the same ballpark” when compared to what sextants offer. Naval Academy teaching future sailors to use sextants amid cyberwar fears 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z "For years, I navigated the roadways using a compass, a sextant and the guidance offered by the stars," Colbert said in a statement. Stephen Colbert can now give you directions in Waze 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z It is certainly easier than positioning by use of sextants and land coordinates, as was done years ago, Lieutenant Erdman said. On the Hudson, Floating Markers of Spring 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z And stars and sextants have been working pretty well for hundreds of years. Why Naval Academy students are learning to sail by the stars for the first time in a decade 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, midshipmen were tested on the sextant. Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z From that spot, at the end of a long tunnel atop the bomb bays, he took the plane’s bearings, using a hand-held sextant to guide with the stars. Theodore Van Kirk, 93, Enola Gay Navigator, Dies 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Exploration of the debris field also yielded a sextant, a navigational device used to determine the angle between a celestial object and the horizon. Treasures, and Gold, in Exploration of Sunken Ship 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Ian MacGregor, a British Airways pilot whose father flew Atlantic flying boats, recalls that the latter charted the heavens with a sextant. Shannon Airport: A curious history of celebrity visitors 2014-04-19T01:26:49Z In the 1700s, sailor started using a device known as a sextant to track their position using the heavens. Why Naval Academy students are learning to sail by the stars for the first time in a decade 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The current president, Trogdon, said sales of sextants plunged after GPS. Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z They stabilized the sextant by anchoring it in a 2-metre-wide trench dug into a hill in the plane of the meridian. Save scientific sites 2012-11-14T18:20:10.447Z Found along with the skeleton were a man's and woman's shoe, and a sextant box. Researchers to set sail in quest to find Amelia Earhart fate 2012-07-04T00:31:11Z Bramsdean had just "shot the sun" and was reading off the degrees, minutes, and seconds from the arc of the sextant. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Newer technologies have all but replaced the humble sextant. Why Naval Academy students are learning to sail by the stars for the first time in a decade 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Then came the profit-seekers, who asked if they could inherit the academy’s $1,500 sextants. Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Captain Poynings, after deliberating with the master, came to the conclusion that land was not far off, but the weather did not allow of the use of either sextant or quadrant. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z A short treatise on the simpler methods of finding position at sea by the observation of the sun’s altitude and the use of the sextant and chronometer. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z At noon, Marston got his sextant to take the sun and sat for some minutes on the skylight calculating the schooner's position. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z “These classes teach you the theory behind it very well,” said Hogan, but actually using a sextant out in the field would be another set of challenges. Why Naval Academy students are learning to sail by the stars for the first time in a decade 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; - so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The ancient navigators carried with them their astrolabes—rough instruments, long since superseded by quadrants and sextants—which enabled them to find their latitude accurately enough. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z The sextant wasn’t invented until the 18th century, and quickly displaced the mariner’s astrolabe for navigational purposes because it was much more precise. A Pirate's Life for Me: Celebrating the Science of Pirates 2012-03-08T22:15:00.230Z But it is not as infallible as that made by the sextant. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z At noon satisfactory sets of circum-meridional altitudes were obtained with two good sextants. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z In this No Man’s Land he is master of all he surveys, and his sextant comprises the universe in its angle. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z At midday he saw the loom of the land ahead of him; so, as the sky was clear, he brought up the sextant and took an observation of the sun, thus ascertaining his exact position. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z A sextant measures the angle of elevation of a celestial object above the horizon. A Pirate's Life for Me: Celebrating the Science of Pirates 2012-03-08T22:15:00.230Z The sextant was raised, and the old scientist looked through it with great care. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z The natives were still with us; they seemed inquisitive and cunning; and shewed great surprise at a sextant and artificial horizon, by which they sat down, attentively watching what was done. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z This allowed him to gather more accurate information on star positions than had hitherto been possible by making angular measurements with sextants or quadrants alone. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z He rummaged everywhere; but, with the exception of the sextant, there was no article of any value that could be easily sold. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z For example, a sextant could be used to sight the sun at high noon in order to determine one’s latitude. A Pirate's Life for Me: Celebrating the Science of Pirates 2012-03-08T22:15:00.230Z Professor Jeffer had the scientific instruments, including a high-grade sextant, thermometer, and barometer, and also a good film camera with numerous rolls of films. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z The sextant and artificial horizon, lying on the ground, escaped destruction, and the dipping-needle had fortunately been taken on board. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The compass and the astrolabe, or sextant, the little instrument with which, by calculating the height of the sun above the horizon, we can tell distance from the equator, were just coming into use. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z A few minutes before noon Carew came on deck, sextant in hand, and the mate rose to his feet lazily. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Again and again he levelled his sextant, until he was satisfied that the ship was within a few miles of the Line. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Then I point the sextant in such a fashion that the rays of the sun, reflected downward, seem to meet or ‘kiss’ the horizon. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Astrolabe, as′trō-lāb, n. an instrument for measuring the altitudes of the sun or stars, now superseded by Hadley's quadrant and sextant. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z "Here is a sextant and a bundle of charts, however," he added. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z So he threw overboard a chronometer, a valuable sextant, a compass, and other articles which a captain deserting his ship would most certainly have carried away. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z For taking the bearings of such a land, the sextant, and the miles already travelled, would not be factors to help much. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Here is the sextant, shaped, as you can see, like a piece of pie. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z The seven reductions are each calculated from two sextant readings, generally of an upper and lower limb. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z At noon the officers, sextant in hand, waited in vain for an opportunity of "shooting the sun." The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z I climbed painfully upwards toward the crater, in order to measure it with my sextant; but in a short time the heat melted the mercury off the mirror of the instrument. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z In justice to Hayes it should be said that the latitude of his “farthest” depended solely on a single observation with a small field sextant of the meridian altitude of the sun. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z "Have you ever taken the sun's altitude with a sextant?" Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z At noon the sun's altitude was carefully set on the sextant, and the latitude, quickly reduced, gave 89° 31ʹ. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z It was now near twelve at noon, but on attempting to take an altitude, I found the angle too great for my sextant. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z In due time their front files come together, near the central part of the sextant; though the rear ones are still invisible;—how many of these no one knows, save approximately. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Again, with haste demanded so often by adverse circumstances, the index of a very small sextant may be misread a whole degree. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z All the same, I don't need no sextant. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Although I had measured our shadows at times on the northward march, at the Pole these shadow notations were observed with the same care as the measured altitude of the sun by the sextant. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Hayston afterwards admitted that he had supplied the deserters with sextant, compass, and chart, had also given them provisions, and fifty dollars in money. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z This was flanked on one side by an oilskin coat and a sou'-wester, and on the other by a sextant and a long brass telescope. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The Commander now comes on deck, with his sextant, having been informed that it is time to “look out for the sun.” Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Feeling the rush of blood to his face, he turned with a guilty start and placed the glove within an inlaid sextant box. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z These sextant readings of the sun's altitude were continued for the next twenty-four hours. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z With the oil fast spurting out, and the motor threatening to stop any minute, and no sextant to show his position, Byrd had his hands full. Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights 2010-12-25T03:00:15.953Z The man with the sextant lowered it and fiddled with the shades. H.M.S. —— If her chronometers, sextants, telescopes, and charts were left in possession of the master, they would be transferred to, and used in the navigation of some other ship. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z A whaleboat was lowered, and ten minutes later the Russians returned from the wreck with a chronometer and a sextant. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z The time for observations was at hand, and I returned to take up the sextant. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Flying blind that way, they had to depend upon their sextant to keep their course, and Anne Lindbergh did her part by using this. Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights 2010-12-25T03:00:15.953Z On April 13th Scott-Hansen and I took an observation with the theodolite, and Nordahl an observation with the sextant, on the natural horizon. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 It would be like chucking the sextant and the compass overboard. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager As�trolabe, an instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the sun or stars, now superseded by the quadrant and sextant. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli About five minutes before local noon the sea captain goes to the bridge with sextant in hand. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Soon after he left the Pole, the sextant that he was using slid off the chart table, breaking the horizon glass. Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights 2010-12-25T03:00:15.953Z According to the theodolite, the latitude was 84° 11.5′, and by the sextant 84° 13′. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Mr. Kendall undertook to carry the sextant and azimuth-compass; and I took the artificial horizon and a package of paper for drying plants, besides which we each carried a blanket, gun, and ammunition. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Each had been provided with a chart and compass, and, in addition to these instruments, the two officers had carried away their sextants in order to navigate by the sun and stars. Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 By showing them a sextant and other apparatus he learned that I not only had a full set, but he also learned how I used them. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Mr. Catherwood's drawing materials, tripod, sextant, and compass were very suspicious, and occasionally Doctor Cabot filled up the measure of their astonishment by bringing down a bird as it flew through the air. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. We had, furthermore, a pocket sextant and an artificial glass horizon, a light azimuth compass of aluminium, and a couple of other compasses. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Our stock consisted of two small sextants, two artificial horizons, two altitude instruments, a repeating circle for lunar observations, and a small transit telescope for ascertaining the rates of the chronometers. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea By six o'clock the schooner was well out to sea, and as it grew dark the Captain came on deck with his sextant. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 Such an image cannot be recorded on a sextant with sufficient accuracy to make it of any use as an observation. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The officers on the bridge were taking sights at the ranges—light houses—with their sextants, while the young midshipmen, under the direction of the ship's navigator, were mathematically working out the ship's position. The Battleship Boys' First Step Upward or, Winning Their Grades as Petty Officers No sign of a vessel, however, appeared, and it approached noon, when the lieutenant, arranging his sextant, prepared to find out where he was. Adventures of Hans Sterk The South African Hunter and Pioneer "When you have finished with your sextant, captain," I exclaimed, "I should like a few words with you." A Marriage at Sea Then he went on deck with the Captain's sextant in his hand, and the crew stopped work to stare at him. Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 The captain screws the sun down to a fixed angle on his sextant; he puts the instrument aside; then takes it up again, brings the sun to the horizon, examines his instrument. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z No wonder we greeted our guide with great joy, and quickly produced the sextant to find out where we were. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative The Officer of the watch has a sextant at his eye. Titanic He gazed with an air of satisfaction at her wedding ring, and then applied his eye afresh to the sextant. A Marriage at Sea We put away the sextant, vowing that no tantalizing promise shall tempt us. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Five or ten minutes before local noon the observer levels his artificial horizon and with sextant in hand lies down on the snow. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z If I had known how to use the sextant or quadrant, I could have settled the matter at once. John Whopper The Newsboy One by one the Captain, the Chief, the Second and the Fourth, all come silently up and direct their sextants to the horizon. Titanic I began, but at that instant I caught sight of old Parsons rising through the hatch with a sextant in his hand. A Marriage at Sea We adjust our station in the line by sextant angles of the leader, measuring his height to fractions, and set an ear to the note of our engine-beats to ensure a steady gait. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war For astronomical observations we had a large theodolite and two smaller ones, intended for use on sledge expeditions, together with several sextants of different sizes. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I For this we shall want a good watch, or pocket chronometer, and a sextant or other instrument for taking altitudes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Mado, who had disclaimed all knowledge of navigation, was busy in the turret with a sextant. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 In the desk that stood in the cabin of the old May I kept the log, my sextant, and a lot of other things of that kind. The Harbor of Doubt But as he passed along the hall, and saw his father in his little cabin of a room, smoking placidly, and polishing his sextant with loving hands, Cyrus’s heart reproached him. An Encore With a sextant on a stand, I made him take the distance between the sun and moon, four or five times; on every occasion he was wonderfully near the truth. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island The sextant, compass, and log were the cause of much discussion, and the usual bets were made on the daily run, the stakes being held by the chaplain. From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade "My chronometer—my clock, you know—was losing a good deal, and I looked through my sextant at them to find out where we really were." The Sandman: His Sea Stories The object in his hand was an artificial horizon, a mirror attached to the sextant which could be fixed at the exact angle of the horizon should the real horizon be obscured. The Harbor of Doubt A quantity of powder was divided between several bags; the compass, sextant, and spy-glass were put carefully out of the way of injury. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories He therefore put the sextant up and bade us farewell. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island The sextant, as used by navigators, was also invented by Newton. Pioneers of Science Then the captain looks through his sextant at the moon, or at some bright star, and finds his position that way. The Sandman: His Sea Stories He had been on deck, taken his sextant observation, and just completed working out his position. The Harbor of Doubt The sun reached its height, and Lund busied himself with his sextant. A Man to His Mate This is managed, as in the sextant, by means of the screw, which raises or lowers the telescope. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island Began to construct astronomical instruments, especially a quadrant and a sextant. Pioneers of Science And sometimes it is cloudy for several days together, so that he can't take an observation with his sextant in all that time. The Sandman: His Sea Stories They found the Captain standing, with his sextant at his eye, the four gold stripes on his sleeve gleaming gaily in the sunshine. A Bookful of Girls I know the general principles, but I've never tried to use a sextant. A Man to His Mate While employed in completing the series of observations at the observatory, Mádera joined us, having in his hand the sextant which I had given to the Prince yesterday. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island The only appliances which he made use of were a sextant constructed by himself, and a common clock; and yet, with those rude instruments, he successfully accomplished his object. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' His first attempt at observation was made with a sextant, rudely constructed under his own directions, and a common clock. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The telescope, which presented objects inverted,—the compass, by which he could always turn to the East when praying,—and the sextant, which he called 'the looking-glass of the sun,' excited peculiar interest. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans "This might be a good chance for me to handle a sextant," suggested Rainey casually. A Man to His Mate The circular instrument and sextant, fixed on stands, next attracted their notice, and they looked on in profound silence while we were taking the sun's altitude. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island Every day at noon, if the sun shines, the captain comes up on deck with a queer thing in his hand, which he calls a sextant. The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The Captain of the "Eclipse" sent the height of his mast back to our Captain and we kept the distance constantly by the officer of the deck reading off the proper angle with the sextant. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders For ten days we scarce saw the sun; for ten days the sextants lay idle. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 He’s got a real dandy sextant in his cabin that I’ll take it upon me to let you have the use of; and the chronometer’s in there too. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure While we were at dinner, Mádera came into the Alceste's cabin for the purpose of asking some questions about the sextant. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island Yet once more, the last time the throttle moved, the spark—and met on the sextant. The Dominant Dollar Now in measuring the altitude of the sun or other celestial body, exactly the same process is gone through except that the sextant is held vertically instead of horizontally. Lectures in Navigation The Professor, a few moments before noon, ascended to the observatory with sextant and chronometer, and determined the latitude and longitude of "Silver Cloud," as Mrs. Jones had named the aluminum ship. Doctor Jones' Picnic The latter therefore went below to make the necessary transfer, and presently returned to the deck, carrying Potter’s sextant—a very handsome and valuable instrument—in his hand. Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure In the mean time Mádera came on board, with the sextant in his hand; he was in such distress that he scarcely knew what he was about. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island Again the throttle lever and its companion spark began to move around the tiny sextant, approaching nearer and nearer. The Dominant Dollar If any time is left, spend it in marking courses with the protractor and handling the sextant. Lectures in Navigation From the observatory with a sextant he made an observation every six hours, making allowance for the declination of the sun, meantime. Doctor Jones' Picnic There was the grey-haired hearty papa, and when we had noticed him taking observations with a sextant, we knew he was “a character.” The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" Travelling thus, with the aid of his compass, sextant, and sketch maps, he reached Mansarowar. An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet Oh," said Toby, "I reckon he means the sextant over there. The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure So there are really five corrections to make instead of four, providing, of course, your sextant has an IE. Lectures in Navigation We went over the same ground as before, and we surveyed with a musket in one hand and a sextant in the other, for the natives were not to be trusted. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery Rolls of parchment with unknown characters, compasses, a sextant, a triangle, and other instruments, lay scattered round in disorder. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers To arrange an instrument for use and observation; as, to adjust a sextant, or the escapement of a chronometer. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As this quadrant was fitted only to determine the altitudes of the celestial bodies, Tycho constructed a large sextant for the purpose of measuring their distances. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Now read the angle of the height of that light by using your sextant. Lectures in Navigation A sextant and astrolabe were brought him from France, of whose use no one could inform him, though he asked all whom he met. Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality It is twelve o’clock mid-day, and Grummet is at the wheel; the officers on the quarter; Crozier, sextant in hand, “shooting the sun.” The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea A graduated scale for the measurement of minute divisions, especially on the arcs of astronomical instruments, sextants, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. In order, however, that he might have one good instrument in his observatory, he constructed a sextant similar to, but somewhat larger than, that which he had presented to Hainzel. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Toward the end of the course a portion of each second period will be devoted to handling the sextant, work with charts, taking sights, etc. Lectures in Navigation I am after a sextant, Mr. Denman," he said, "an almanac—a nautical almanac. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Following these up, he was soon at the place itself, and examining the various articles lying upon the ground—provisions, clothing, the roll of charts, sextant. Tessa 1901 That fixed to the oblong opening near the lower end of the index-bar of a sextant or quadrant; it divides degrees into minutes, and these again into parts of seconds. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Regarding it as a new and unusual phenomenon, he hastened to his observatory, adjusted his sextant, and measured its distances from the nearest stars in Cassiopeia. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler In other words, when the celestial body is on your meridian and you take an altitude of the body by sextant at that instant, the altitude you get is called a meridian altitude. Lectures in Navigation "Time," he called suddenly, and, lowering the sextant, looked in on Munson. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Again entering the captain's cabin, he returned with two or three charts, a sextant and the ship's chronometer, which he placed on the table just as a heavy footfall sounded on the companion steps. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 In nautical astronomy, denotes the taking the sun, moon, or stars' altitude with a quadrant or sextant, in order thereby to find the latitude or time; also, the lunar distances. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A sextant of brass, kept together by screws, and capable of being taken to pieces for travelling with. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Suppose you were at B and from an altitude of the sun, taken by sextant, you worked out your position. Lectures in Navigation Forsythe made a notation from the sextant on a piece of paper. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Murray’s sextant had been broken, and as he was leaving the Archer, a shipmate offered him his quadrant. The Three Midshipmen On the 22nd a man found means of carrying off a sextant from Mr Bayley’s observatory. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries These instruments were an iron sextant, 2½ feet in diameter, and a brass azimuthal quadrant 3½ feet in diameter, both of which were divided into single minutes of a degree. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Your zenith distance, therefore, is the difference between the true meridian altitude of the sun, obtained by your sextant, and 90�. Lectures in Navigation Down to the officers' quarters to get a sextant or a quadrant. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility Mr Grey had just before gone on deck with his sextant. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea And now, O sextant, let me beg of you 2 let a little are into our church. The Book of Humorous Verse Other articles of value were saved in the same manner, including the captain's chronometer and sextant, the sad neglect of which had caused the terrible disaster. Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise So much light is lost in the double reflection in the mirrors of the sextant, that stars fainter than the third magnitude can seldom be observed. Lectures in Navigation Forsythe put the sextant to his eye, and swept it back and forth for a few moments. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility If I see that sextant again I will break it to pieces. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea The radio compass is dependable day or night, and is said to be quite as reliable as a sextant or other navigating instruments. Opportunities in Aviation With which I left him, and went below for my sextant. The Castaways Every sextant is liable to be in error. Lectures in Navigation Three-quarters of an hour afterwards, Captain Turcott, with his sextant in his hand, took the sun's altitude, and having made his observation, he gave the course. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Owen went below and stowed away his sextant, which was one given him by Captain Aggett, and which he highly prized. Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea High noon, and a red spot visible overhead; the captain brings out his sextant to take an observation. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses And immediately after breakfast, next morning, I got out my sextant, and, all hands of us landing upon the islet, we went to work with a will. The Castaways The observed altitude of a heavenly body as seen at sea by the sextant may be converted to the true altitude by the application of the following four corrections: Dip, Refraction, Parallax and Semi-diameter. Lectures in Navigation Well, yes, we do use a little glass in the business attached to the sextant. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy Captain Snaggs squinted through the eye-glass of his instrument for a bit with the sextant raised aloft, as if he were trying to stare old Sol out of countenance. The Island Treasure This proceeding we viewed with no little interest, and, for the humor of the thing, I borrowed the sextant of the captain and took a satirical view of a great luminary in obscurity. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Near him was his second mate, Leonard Champion, with two boys, one of whom also held a sextant. The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific If, for instance, you can get a sight by sextant of the sun, you may be able to work out from this sight a very accurate calculation of what your latitude is. Lectures in Navigation Having claimed the sextant and chronometer when I was carried on board, I was told that they were no longer mine, and care was taken that I should not ascertain the ship’s position. The Two Shipmates Swallow was one of them: he was examined by the committee of supercargoes at Canton, and produced a sextant on which was the name of Waldron, of the Edward. The History of Tasmania , Volume II He replaced his sextant in its case, then headed the small procession back to the cabins. The Players Captain Graybrook, a fine-looking man, with an open, intelligent expression of countenance, stood aft, sextant in hand, prepared to take a meridional altitude. The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific To understand this is important, for no sight with the sextant is of value except with relation to your meridian. Lectures in Navigation As is customary, the midshipmen assembled under the master each day at noon and at other periods with their sextants or quadrants to take observations. The Two Shipmates They all, however, carried a sextant and could by rule of thumb find a latitude roughly. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell They might have proved themselves fleeter navigators had they had the sextant and chronometer to help them along. The Frozen Pirate Travelling thus, with the aid of his compass, sextant and sketch maps, he reached Mansarowar. In the Forbidden Land It is the sextant or some member of the sextant family - such as the quadrant, octant, etc. Lectures in Navigation Among other articles were my sextant, chronometer, and nautical almanacks, which I had brought in my chest from the Dolphin, though unable to use them on board the privateer till the day I spoke of. The Two Shipmates I pawned my watch and sextant, and shovelled coal one spell, and finally got a billet in the New Hebrides on a screw of eight pounds a month. A Son Of The Sun My excellent watch was an admirable chronometer to me for the short period of my peregrinations; but I required a sextant, some philosophical instruments, and books. Peter Schlemihl He said this without pausing, as he went to his berth and brought out a sextant, with which he returned on deck. Philosopher Jack The sextant is the one most in use and so will be described first. Lectures in Navigation Preparatory to quitting their sledge, the men had loaded themselves with eight pounds of pemmican and two of biscuit, besides the artificial horizon, sextant, and compass, a rifle, and a boathook. The Ocean and its Wonders There was, however, a box containing the captain’s sextant, the electrical machine, and a packet of dynamite cartridges. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole With youth, and health, and strength, they were as easy in their minds as Lieutenant Greely was with sextant, chart, and compass. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew “Twenty-six minutes,” continued the captain, reading off his sextant. Newton Forster The Merchant Service Arc In getting angles of land-marks or buoys, the sextant is held by the handle No. 6 in a horizontal position. Lectures in Navigation ‘Capital shots both,’ says the first-lieutenant; ‘he’ll never take an observation of your sextant again, master;’ and they both laughs heartily, and goes down the ladder to get their dinner. The King's Own “I wish I had not left my sextant behind me in the hurry of departure,” said the Captain that evening to Leo. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole The possession of the sextant you will, I hope, find a considerable advantage to you, as it will enable you to gain experience in taking observations of the celestial bodies as you traverse the ocean. My First Voyage to Southern Seas My father had, in addition, his money, which he had saved from the wreck, a compass, a sextant, a map, and a book or two. Twice Lost Hence all measurements made by the sextant are too large. Lectures in Navigation Breakfast was over, and the captain and mate, with Walter, were standing with their sextants in hand taking an observation to ascertain the ship’s latitude. The South Sea Whaler Still, the master, with the aid of the compass, his sextant, and chronometer, was able to steer his course with as much certainty as if land had been all the time in sight. Ben Hadden or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It Scarcely had Mr Henley said this than the captain made his appearance on deck with his sextant in his hand, as if to take a meridional observation. My First Voyage to Southern Seas He and Desmond returned on board and found the chart, sextant, and chronometer, which the boatswain had fortunately not carried off. The Three Admirals At the same time we measure by sextant the altitude of the celestial body observed, say, the sun. Lectures in Navigation “Now I will speak to you,” said the captain, handing his sextant to Walter, and drawing his pistols. The South Sea Whaler Having neither chronometer nor sextant, and only a quadrant of antique date, often ten and even twenty miles out of adjustment, the position of the vessel could only be guessed. Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign And you, sir—you think yourself a navigator—go and get your sextant and prove yourself one,” he added, turning fiercely to me. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The doctor assisted the midshipmen to search for a sextant and nautical almanack, but, to their surprise, neither were to be found. The Three Admirals Lay off the altitude difference along the azimuth either away from or toward the body observed, according as to whether the true altitude, observed by sextant, is less or greater than the calculated altitude. Lectures in Navigation No sooner did he arrive than he wanted everything he saw: first their gauze mosquito curtains, then an iron camp bed, next the sextant and thermometer. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley “That they may mark the exact moment shown on the chronometer, while I mark the sun’s elevation as shown on the index of the sextant.” In the Eastern Seas The great difficulty of making observations at sea, except with a sextant—and such, it must be remembered, are of a very rough nature compared with those made on shore—is want of steadiness. My First Voyage to Southern Seas Adair and his officers stood with their sextants in their hands ready to note the sun’s altitude should he burst forth, while the first lieutenant watched the chronometer. The Three Admirals This should be done regularly before each series of sights as it is impossible to tell what may have happened when the sextant is lying idle, except by the above test. Lectures in Navigation He had, besides, his chronometer, sextant, artificial horizon, and thermometers carried in cases, as also medicines, and the necessary clothing and other articles for himself. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley Now, for instance, there are charts in the captain’s cabin, and the proper instruments for taking observations—sextants and chronometer. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale He told me also one morning to tend the chronometer for him, while he made a set of observations with the sextant to ascertain our exact longitude. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The captain and Green with the first lieutenant had their sextants to their eyes in a moment: the sun was still rising. The Three Admirals Now, with your sextant, watch and notebook, go to the place from which you have decided to take your observations and, at the proper watch time, start taking your altitudes. Lectures in Navigation His sextant, artificial horizon, thermometer, and compasses were carried apart. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley At your age you ought to be as well able to use a sextant as I am.” Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser Geometry has the quadrant and sextant, with Euclid beneath. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Tom Made Some Observations Captain Britten and Tom, sextants in hand, made repeated observations. Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope There is a way to calculate your latitude, even though the altitude you secure is taken by sextant some minutes before or after noon. Lectures in Navigation He was greatly interested with the sextant, or, as he called it, “the looking-glass of the sun.” Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley I fetched my sextant and took the sun; and I may say confidently to all whom it may concern that this was the last observation ever made by any one on board the ill-fated Esmeralda! On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story That is an astronomical instrument, something like a sextant—also an invention of Reoh's. The Girl in the Golden Atom Captain Miles was sitting on the port bulwarks, which were intact, polishing up his sextant. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea Take sight by sextant only when the sun bears as near as possible due East or West. Lectures in Navigation Run down, Haldane, and get my sextant for me, there’s a good chap! The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea “Then your sextant must have been out of order, or your calculations wrong,” replied the skipper, shortly. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story But he fetched out his sextant all the same, as well for the mere sake of doing “something” as to oblige Mr Meldrum; and taking advantage of a favourable opportunity, he “took” the sun. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land “I’m afraid we’re going to have a nasty night of it,” said Captain Miles, who had just then come up from below with his sextant. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea Next, take your sextant and test it for index error. Lectures in Navigation “It seems, though, as if we’re going to have three on the job; for here comes Mr O’Neil with his sextant under his arm, evidently bent on the same errand!” The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Captain Billings, however, did not overhear the remark; and proceeded to test my accuracy with the sextant, making me take the angle of the sun and that of the distant land on the port bow. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story He then hailed the steward down the companion-way, telling him to bring up his sextant from the cabin. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land Mr Marline liked to chaff the captain about this, telling him that his sextant wanted polishing up a bit and that the glasses were wrong. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea If BC measures by sextant 60�, AB measures 90�-60� or 30�. Lectures in Navigation Then we had a parson who named me the sextant. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers The skipper likewise secured the ship’s papers and removed the compass from the binnacle; while I, of course, did not forget my sextant and a chart or two which Captain Billings told me to take. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story So saying Johnson turned upon his heel and dived below for his sextant. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Captain Miles’s sextant and the tell-tale compass, that used to hang from the middle of the ceiling of the deck above, reposed peaceably together on the top of a double Gloucester cheese. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea At that instant the sun is on your meridian, it is noon at the ship, and the angle you read from your sextant is the meridian altitude of the sun. Lectures in Navigation And I jumped up and went below to fetch my sextant up on deck; for by this time it was drawing well on toward noon. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Meanwhile I took my sextant on deck, and had another squint through it at the chase. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron I suppose Captain Stenson had a sextant, chronometer, and all necessary navigation tables aboard?” The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Captain Hollinger, who had the deck, went to the chart house for his sextant. The Pirate Shark In other words, when you were in 10� N latitude, the pole star would measure 10� high by sextant. Lectures in Navigation Prof. had forgotten his sextant and rode back to our main camp for it. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Before going below, however, I ordered young Keene to bring up my sextant, with which I very carefully measured the angle between the brigantine’s main-topmast head and the top of her transom. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Quitting the common Fleet of herring-busses and whalers, where indeed his leeward, laggard condition was painful enough, he desperately steers-off, on a course of his own, by sextant and compass of his own. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History He also got a quadrant and compass into the boat; but was forbidden, on pain of death, to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant, time-keeper, or any of my surveys or drawings. A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat Test each sextant for index error and record the result where you can refer to it easily. Lectures in Navigation The captain ran for his sextant; and an observation was caught, which, being worked up, gave our latitude at 45° 35'. Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' The captain proceeded, armed with a sextant, to take the height of the sun, which would give him his latitude. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean This they effect by means of a tool made of brass, glass, and silver, called a sextant. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) On the eclipse expedition mentioned in the last chapter I had used a sextant. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer In other places boats were run under overhanging trees on the shore, in which signal flags were hoisted, and the angles measured below with sextants. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy A large table with a constant litter of maps, charts, sextants, log-books, pipes, and tobacco jars, occupied the center, and comfortable chairs were placed around in careless order. All Aboard A Story for Girls Fifteen days' provision so completely filled the sledges, that it was with difficulty we found room for a small sextant, one suit of clothes, and three changes of linen, together with our bedding. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 A single observation at sea with sextant and the natural horizon, as usually taken by the master of a ship, is assumed under ordinary satisfactory conditions to give the observer's position within about a mile. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club The articles manufactured principally are nautical instruments, as sextants, compasses, etc. Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures As soon as they started Joby saw that the whole thing was going around widdershins; and his brother stood up under the naphtha-lamp and pulled out a sextant and began to take observations. Wandering Heath From this he produced a compass and a sextant. Ralph Granger's Fortunes An attempt was made to obtain the latitude, which failed, in consequence of the screw, that adjusts the telescope of the sextant, being immoveably fixed, from the moisture upon it having frozen. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 Just before noon by the clocks, Lieutenant Baskirk appeared on the bridge, dressed in a brand-new uniform, with a sextant in his hands. On The Blockade Then, he could actually use a sextant, and his way of working out his latitude was chaste and picturesque. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary "I'll have to hock my sextant," was the conclusion at which he presently arrived. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates "It was under the sextant," he explained triumphantly. Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet These cuts, especially the frontispiece representing a boy with a spy-glass and globe, and with a sextant at his feet, are far from poor work for a lad of thirteen. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book It was nearly twice the size of my own apartment, containing a wide single berth, several comfortable upholstered chairs, and a large desk, on which stood a sextant, besides several charts, one unrolled. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune Nor was less care shown for his rifles, sextants, his Bible and Church-service, and the medicine chest. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Ten minutes later he took his sextant under his arm and departed for a pawnshop in lower Market Street. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates At the start of the journey Sir George had his sextant, but, having to walk hungry and thirsty, he needed to walk light. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. He asked to see all our curiosities, as the watch, revolver, breech-loading rifle, sextant. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 He reached across for Captain Branscome's sextant, and held it between his shaking hands. Poison Island I observed with the telescope of one of Ramsden's sextants; which, I think, answers this purpose as well as any other. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Upon examining my sextant I found the index error was 39 degrees 1 minute. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills Therefore he hid the sextant in a tree, where many a year later it was found, a rustic relic, by some settlers. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. The transit instrument, the meridian circle, the mural circle, the heliometer, and the sextant, belong to this class. The Uses of Astronomy An Oration Delivered at Albany on the 28th of July, 1856 Having thus imparted my intentions I ordered them to throw away every superfluous article; and a very valuable sextant, which had hitherto been carried turn about by Corporals Auger and Coles, was here abandoned. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 Bennett ran for his sextant and got an observation, the first that had been possible for nearly a month. A Man's Woman I spent a considerable time in repairing my sextant. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills It annoyed me now to find that the silvering of the glasses of my large sextant was so much injured from the constant wettings it had experienced that this day it was almost useless. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 The many interests of his new life, together with the use of a pocket sextant, prompted him to make various experiments for himself. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 He was provided with a sextant, chronometer and barometer, and during a week's sojourn which he made at our place, had an opportunity to make several astronomical observations. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific The sailor can measure the distance at any time by his sextant. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Yesterday I discovered that I had not repaired my sextant in a satisfactory manner. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills I woke to find my father seated close to me, cross-legged, examining a sextant. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Having learnt the use of the sextant in surveying, and my brother having a book on Nautical Astronomy, I practised a few of the simpler observations. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 With our sextants we find when the centre of the sun is on the celestial meridian corresponding to the terrestrial one; and at that instant it is noon where we are. Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East The compass, the sextant, or quadrant, &c., are the means which enable him to attain these grand results, and to bring his ship to the desired haven. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects The sun is too vertical for taking it with my sextant and artificial horizon. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills My father held the sextant for him, while Nat, under instructions, worked out the sum. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 The now indispensable sextant was but clumsily anticipated by the newly invented astrolabe. The Life of Columbus The consequence, everybody knows, would be incurable in a boy who saw sextants for the first time, compasses, patent logs, sounding-machines, signalling gear, and the other secrets of navigators. London River The broken half of a ship's wheel clung to the wall above the narrow grate, and the white marble mantel supported a sextant, a binocular, and other incidentals of a shipmaster's profession. A Hoosier Chronicle At this period of our journey the sextant was too much out of order for making sufficiently accurate observations of the stars. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills Armed with telescope and sextant they effected the reform of the Chinese calendar, and secured for their religion the respect and adherence of some of the highest minds in the Empire. The Awakening of China It may be held in the hand like a sextant, or may be carried on a light staff. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Kneeling on one side of the little pile he discerned that on a large stone, serving as a rude bench, were some tin utensils, some knives, a sextant, and a quantity of empty cartridge cases. The Wings of the Morning I suppose you are the only girl of your age in America who can read the sextant and calculate latitude and longitude. A Hoosier Chronicle I have got a sextant for taking the latitude, but I have not a chronometer, as Mr. Gregory thought the jolting it would get should render it useless. Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills Explorers naturally select hills as their points of triangulation; but compass observations on hill-tops, if unchecked by a sextant observation of the sun's bearings, are never so reliable as those taken on a plain. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries The principle is one which is occasionally employed for setting out circles with a pocket sextant, viz., the property of a circle that the angle in a segment is constant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 The steersman seemed to have talked without intermission for two hours; before them on the table lay barometer, chronometer, sextant, journal, and half the ship's library. Norse Tales and Sketches They had a wonderful art of navigation, considering that they had no compass, sextant, or other instrument, and that their vessels were always comparatively small. White Shadows in the South Seas Hadley's sextant and Harrison's chronometer were the necessary implements to enable James Cook to do his work, which was thus, both in aim and method, in every way English. The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known The use of the sextant may be learnt at various establishments in the City and East End of London, where the junior officers of merchant vessels receive instruction at small cost. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries On all sides are sextants, quadrants, and chronometers. Willis the Pilot Previous to my embarkation the room was the receptacle of a quantity of chronometers, sextants, charts, and other nautical apparatus. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life But thoughts of sextants and quadrants were the least of our cares. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Hadley had invented the sextant, by which the sun's elevation could be taken with much more ease and accuracy than with the old cross-staff, the very rough gnomon which the earlier navigators had to use. The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known A traveller could learn their addresses from the maker of his sextant. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries So it is with the world; society is a ship, men and their passions are the mast, sails, rigging, the anchors, quadrants, and sextants of Providence. Willis the Pilot Box sextant, used as giving angular accuracy to any of the foregoing; most useful with taping, and in following. How to Observe in Archaeology For several days afterward, we now and then came across bits of the quadrant or sextant; but it was only to mourn over their fate. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Fifteen days' provision so completely filled the sledges that it was with difficulty we found room for a small sextant, one suit of clothes, and three changes of linen, together with our bedding. The Journey to the Polar Sea I did not measure its altitude above the horizon with a sextant, or the elevation might have been more nearly ascertained. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 The ocean is a large place for a small boat to get lost in, and without compass or sextant there would be little chance for her to overhaul a ship standing along a certain course. Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" Returning to the party at Portland Bay where I had left my sextant, I then obtained a good observation on the sun's meridian altitude. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Christian handed Bligh a sextant and a book of nautical tables, saying, as he did so, "This book is sufficient for every purpose, and you know, sir, my sextant is a good one." The Naval Pioneers of Australia An attempt was made to obtain the latitude which failed in consequence of the screw that adjusts the telescope of the sextant being immovably fixed from the moisture upon it having frozen. The Journey to the Polar Sea These errors and rates were found by lieutenant Flinders, from equal altitudes taken with a sextant on a stand, and using an artificial horizon of quicksilver. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Between the two, sir," observed Newton, handing Captain Drawlock his sextant, "you stand a chance of losing both. Newton Forster The soundings were either taken in the ship, with simultaneous cross bearings, or in boats, generally accompanied with notices of known objects in a line, or the angles between them taken with a sextant. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 During the drought a smaller species had been troublesome at night, as I had frequently experienced when obliged to sit, sextant in hand, awaiting the passage of stars near the meridian. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Besides this I needed a sextant, some scientific instruments, and books. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Dig took the sextant, and made a prize shot, or thought he did. Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis "Twenty-six minutes," continued the captain, reading off his sextant. Newton Forster One fine morning he suddenly made his appearance on the village green, followed by some of his hangers on, bearing a theodolite, chains, measuring rods, sextants, compasses, and other instruments of land-surveying. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 The only other articles, Ateeko said, were a trunk, a broken sextant, and a watch; the latter had been destroyed, as he alleged, in their ignorant eagerness to examine its structure. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa "Without an English sextant you cannot take an altitude at all." The Man Who Laughs Jackey then went to a place where he "plant him sextant," but the flood had been over the spot and washed it away. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 Yes, indeed," said the captain, looking up; "be quick, and fetch my sextant. Newton Forster In November, 1577, appeared a bright comet, which Tycho carefully observed with his sextant, proving that it had no perceptible parallax, and must therefore be further off than the moon. Kepler He brought out a damaged leathern trunk, with two or three shirts, and other articles of dress, much the worse for wear, and the sextant and parchment already mentioned. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa I got the requisite observation for latitude during the night; and since necessity is ever the mother of invention, read off my sextant by a torch made for the occasion from pieces of paperbark. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea When returning I found the trough for an artificial horizon washed upon the banks of the creek, this had been left with the sextant. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 He would know how to use the sextant—that instrument which Captain Hull's hand had held every day, and which gave him the height of the stars. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen On 11th November, 1572, Tycho noticed an unfamiliar bright star in the constellation of Cassiopeia, and continued to observe it with a sextant. Kepler On the morning of the 19th March, Clapperton was sent for by the sultan, and desired to bring with him "the looking glass of the sun," the name which they gave to the sextant. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Besides provisions for six days, and arms, we had with us the following instruments: large sextant, small sextant, artificial horizon, chronometer, two compasses, spyglass, watch, lantern, and measuring tape. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea We looked over the tent, asked Carron for what important things there were, and each laid hold of what appeared to be of most value, the Captain taking two sextants, other parties firearms, etc., etc. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 The mean of 15 meridional altitudes with the sextant made the latitude 15 degrees 6 minutes 22.5 seconds, and of fourteen observations with the circle 15 degrees 6 minutes 13.8 seconds. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 We'll take it both by levels and by triangulation, using an old sextant of the Professor's. Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio One of these in my own case was a little electric flash- light taken for the purpose of reading the verniers of a theodolite or sextant in star observations. Through the Brazilian Wilderness When taking observations with the sextant, Lieutenant Lockwood generally reclined on the snow, while Sergeant Brainerd called time and made notes, as shown in our illustration. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Suddenly, after using his sextant, the captain exclaimed: "It is here!" The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction By twenty sets of lunar distances with the sun, containing one hundred sights with the sextant, the sun being to the east of the moon, the longitude is 125 degrees 11 minutes 24.3 seconds. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 We furnished him with two sextants, a navigation book, sails, oars, and log line. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 403, December 5, 1829 Because of these high altitudes of the sun the sextant with artificial horizon could not be used unless one depended upon star observations altogether, an uncertain dependence because of the many cloudy nights. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments. Gulliver's Travels The latitude—that is, the distance of any spot from the equator and the pole—might be found by a simple observation with the sextant. Men of Invention and Industry I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory. The Land That Time Forgot When he returned below to put his sextant away he found that the two men had retreated out into the lobby. The Shadow Line; a confession Or, no; don't have it a sextant; have it a quadrant—an old-fashioned, ebony quadrant. Blix A great sea chest stood open in the center, and all round upon the carpet were little piles of jerseys, oil-skins, books, sextant boxes, instruments, and sea-boots. Beyond the City He used magnificent instruments of the simple "pair of compasses" kind—circles, quadrants, and sextants. Men of Invention and Industry The sextant and chronometer had both been broken beyond repair, and they had been broken just this very night. The Land That Time Forgot The Captain instructed him in steering, and even promised to show him the use of the sextant and how to take an observation in the fake short and easy coasting style of navigation. Moran of the Lady Letty And Our Mug, he buys the sextant there in Mazatlan—the sextant, that got out of order and spoiled everything. Blix He was talking boisterously, and heaping his sea-boots and sextants back into his chest. Beyond the City But Tycho Brahe's sextant proved the forerunner of the modern instrument. Men of Invention and Industry But I can work out the latitude and the longitude, and I can handle my sextant and manage my logarithms. The Captain of the Polestar Some minutes before the sun passed the meridian, Captain Nemo took his sextant, and watched with great attention. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea I named it Mount Ida, and from the summit I took a round of angles with my pocket sextant. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, Fortunately, I had also my pocket sextant, and with it took some valuable angles. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia The sextant, which is the instrument universally used at sea, was gradually evolved from similar instruments used from the earliest times. Men of Invention and Industry A sextant and quadrant told the American that the stolid Briton worked out his own reckonings. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Captain Nemo, by the help of his sextant, took the altitude of the sun, which ought also to give the latitude. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea The local attraction was so great on this hill that the prismatic compass was useless; luckily I had my pocket sextant with me, by which I obtained the included angles. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, But as he passed along the hall, and saw his father in his little cabin of a room, smoking placidly, and polishing his sextant with loving hands, Cyrus's heart reproached him. Quaint Courtships The general structure is the same; but the vast improvement of the modern sextant is due, firstly, to the use of the reflecting mirror, and, secondly, to the use of the telescope for accurate sighting. Men of Invention and Industry In order to determine their position with as much accuracy as possible, the angular distances of the peaks were measured with the sextant, at different fixed points from which they could be seen. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources INSTRUMENTS.—1 sextant, 1 opera-glass, 1 spyglass, 1 box compass, 1 pocket compass, 1 Fahrenheit thermometer, 1 aneroid barometer, 1 box containing a photographic apparatus, together with glasses, chemicals, etc. The Mysterious Island With the pocket sextant I found this spot to be in south latitude about 28 degrees 50 minutes, and longitude about 122 degrees 11 minutes East. Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, At this moment the sun was approaching the culminating-point of its course, and the two observers pointed the telescopes of their sextants upon it. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude The modern sextant is merely a modification of Newton's or Badley's quadrant, and its present construction seems to be perfect. Men of Invention and Industry In addition to the barometer and thermometer, I took with me a sextant and spyglass, and we had of course our compasses. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources “Now,” said Spilett, “since, beside a sextant, we have an atlas, see, my dear Cyrus, the exact position of Lincoln Island in the Pacific.” The Mysterious Island After the equinox the sun is too high to be measured by the sextant in the artificial horizon. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart The men of the expedition gathered round the observers with their sextants ready in their hands. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude Luckily they did not fancy my pocket sextant, and artificial horizon, which were in the same place. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 The water swept overboard only a sextant and a pair of saddle- bags. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources So the next day the engineer made the observations with the sextant with the following result:—Longitude 150° 30’ west; latitude 34° 57’ south. The Mysterious Island He also boasted of his skill in navigation, and according to his own story could handle a quadrant or even a sextant as adroitly as a marlinspike. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Sometimes Mrs Barnett, who had become quite expert in handling the sextant, assisted him, or took the observation in his stead. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude As they had had time to take with them a sextant chromometer and Palinurus, they had no difficulty next day in taking observations, and found themselves about five hundred miles W.N.W. of Mizen Head. The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician These had been filled with water the night before, and were now placed in the boat, with our blankets and instruments, consisting of a sextant, telescope, spy-glass, thermometer, and barometer. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources I also observed the well seasoned case of my sextant shrunk considerably and the joints opened. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 In those days there were no chronometers in use, and but few of our West India captains were in possession of a sextant, or indeed able to work a lunar observation. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale His instruments included armillae like those which had been used in Alexandria, and other armillae designed by himself—sextants, mural quadrants, large celestial globes and various instruments for special purposes. History of Astronomy Our chronometer wheels have not been taken for hair ornaments, our barometer tubes for beads, or the sextant thrown into the river as "bad medicine," as had been predicted. Canyons of the Colorado The instruments consisted of a sextant, artificial horizon, &c., a barometer, spy-glass, and compass. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources He unships the helm; he flings compass and sextant overboard; he fires up the furnaces, and screws down the safety-valve, and says, 'Go ahead!' Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Some of the astronomical instruments which they constructed, including the sextant and the gnomon, are still in use. Early European History What would you think of the captain of a steamer who in calm weather sailed by rule of thumb, only getting out his sextant when storms began to blow? Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes For scientific work, we have two sextants, four chronometers, a number of barometers, thermometers, compasses, and other instruments. Canyons of the Colorado These had been filled with water the night before, and were now placed in the boat, with our blankets and instruments, consisting of a sextant, telescope, spyglass, thermometer, and barometer. The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. In the ship, religion; pole-star, faith in God; rudder, free will; compass, conscience; sextant, rationalism and experience; anchor, hope; guiding chart, creeds and opinions of men vs. the Word of God; pilot, Jesus Christ. To Infidelity and Back During the total eclipse the lunar disc displayed, as almost always happens, a reddish tint, without disappearing; the edges, examined with a sextant, were strongly undulating, notwithstanding the considerable altitude of the orb. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 So the Indian farther west had his highways prepared for him by the instincts of these primitive engineers that knew nothing of trigonometry or the sextant or the places of the stars. The French in the Heart of America Much of the night is spent in making observations with the sextant. Canyons of the Colorado A man sells me a sheep, and I pay him in return with my grandfather’s old sextant. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Chips couldn't tell much before he went under, but the Southern Cross was boarded by the Devil's Admiral sure enough—didn't they find a sextant out of her in a store in Shanghai? The Devil's Admiral About four months ago he borrowed of me a sextant, quadrant, and chronometer. The Stories of the Three Burglars Mr. Bayley's sextant was stolen from the observatory: Cook at once demanded from the chiefs that it should be returned, but they paid no attention. The Life of Captain James Cook Soon I see Hawkins down by the boat, taking up the sextant--rather a strange proceeding for him--and I question him concerning it. Canyons of the Colorado The captain went to the cabin, where he found three feet of water; he, however, succeeded in procuring a chronometer, sextant, and chart. Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea The word is found in some older English Dictionaries, and in France and Italy is still applied to the traversing index of a plane table or of a sextant. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 The instruments employed were an eight-inch sextant, box-sextant, prismatic compasses, pocket compasses, double axis compass, aneroid barometers, thermometers, and artificial horizon, etc. Journals of Australian Explorations |
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