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Re: sextants and micrometers
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2003 Aug 26, 10:23 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2003 Aug 26, 10:23 -0400
George- Were micrometers at all available in their time? Could htey simply have used a small micrometer to measure the exact scale reading, literally by placing it alongside the scale instead of using an eyeball judgement? This could be a simple logic of economics, i.e. buying a "stock" small micrometer rather than a more expensive and complex sextant of a design which perhaps had not been made?
