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Re: Sextant Terms
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 24, 09:51 +0200
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 24, 09:51 +0200
Frank Reed wrote: >Many other navigation cultures take their >lead from English. But is the same true in >other cultures with a long history of >navigation science? I am not sure about this for the 19th and 20th century, but I do know that the Dutch used Dutch terms in the 16th-18th century. If I look at the instruments I am researching I find the following: Cross-staff - graadboog Davis quadrant - Engels quadrant Mirror-staff (never found this actually in English literature) - spiegelboog Demi-cross - no Dutch term exists, but also never found the English term in Dutch literature (as far as I know it was a Dutch invention based on John Davis' 45 degree backstaff). As far as I can remember from period literature the Dutch did not use any English vocabulary, even for the other instruments as a chip log and hourglass. Nicol�s --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
