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Re: Why is a sextant like it is?
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2004 Nov 18, 08:07 -0800

--- Alexandre Eremenko wrote:

> I also find it very inconvenient that
> the legs are on the same side as the handle: it
> seems more
> natural to me to make the legs on the opposite side
> to the handle.

A friend of mine has a Tamaya sextant with the legs on
the opposite side to the handle.  Also, it lacks a
vernier scale on the drum, but can easily be read to
0.2' anyway.

Chuck Taylor
 47d 55' N
122d 11' W

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