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Gambey sextants
From: Will O?Neil
Date: 2001 Apr 27, 11:53 EDT
From: Will O?Neil
Date: 2001 Apr 27, 11:53 EDT
In the 1850s, the U.S. Navy's Depot of Charts and Instruments (headed by Matthew F. Maury) bought "Gambey sextants" at least twice from E & GW Blunt in New York. (Also on the shopping list were a number of other instruments as well as books and charts, bought for exploration expeditions.) Does anyone have any notion of what a "Gambey sextant" may have been? Will O'Neil