Description and use of a simple appendage to the reflecting sector, by which it is rendered capable of measuring all possible altitudes, on land, by reflection from an artificial horizon.

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Author / Creator:Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824.
Imprint:Philadelphia, 1818.
Description:p. [325]-332. illus. 30 cm.
Language:English
Series:American Philosophical Society. Transactions, n.s., v. 1, no. 25
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; new ser., v. 1, pt. 25.
Subject:Altitudes -- Measurement.
Sextant.
Altitudes -- Measurement.
Sextant.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7471985
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Notes:Read September 19, 1817.

Mansueto

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Call Number: Q11.P6 n.s. v.1 pt.25
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