There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the ...

One of the popular prints by Baroque painter and drafter Andreas Stech depicts the couple using a brass sextant together. After the death of her husband in 1690, Elżbieta Koopman completed and ...

An artificial horizon for sea use has been wanted for the last hundred years; in fact, ever since the sextant came into general use. It is a matter of common occurrence for mist or fog to obscure ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to contemporary life.

Sextant Growth Fund earns a Below Average Process Pillar rating. The process is bolstered by the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 50%. The measure indicates the percentage of ...

The military began to experiment with all-brass bands from the 1810s, and by the 1820s civilian brass bands were being created, many mentored by military veterans The story of the origins of ...

At first sight this astrolabe looks like an outsized old-fashioned pocket watch with an entirely brass face ... the printed map, the sextant, the chronometer and the compass - all of them doing ...

Sextant International Fund earns an Average Process Pillar rating. The primary contributor to the rating is the fund's strong long-term risk-adjusted performance. This can be seen in its five-year ...

Cork City Council has just approved planning for the 217-unit scheme on the former Sextant bar site The 217-unit Railway Apartments scheme on Cork city's south docks will include one of Ireland's ...

There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the ...

At first sight this astrolabe looks like an outsized old-fashioned pocket watch with an entirely brass face ... the printed map, the sextant, the chronometer and the compass - all of them doing ...