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Bauer discusses this question in
his Sextant Book, and says he has seen
one.


Alex

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Clive wrote:

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> Does anyone know if any Left Handed Sextants were made? It seems to me that
> a normal right-handed person would prefer to hold the sextant in his left
> hand so that his right had could write down the readings.
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> jean-philippe planas wrote:
> > In France we had POULAIN (from Montrouge) sextants which were a good
> > design with surprising legs on both side wich enabled to store the
> > sextant in its transit box in a position where you could directly grab
> > it by the handle for use. It enabled to store it "upside down with
> > respect to almost any other brand.
> Those 'surprising legs' can also be found on most surveyor's sextants.
> The surveyor's sextants have an additional handle that screws into the
> normal handle perpendicularly and makes it easier to take horizontal
> angles. With the additional handle in place it is not possible to lay
> down the instrument in a normal way (e.g. with the handle down) and that
> is why the additional set of legs was introduced. The Observator I own
> even has one of these legs right in front of the telescope, which is
> quite odd. You will find it on my web-site:
> http://www.dehilster.info/instrumenten/sextantgeodetic/index.html
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