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THIS book places in the hands of explorers, navigators, surveyors and others who use the sextant a simple means of finding its centring error. The centring error of a sextant at sea has hitherto been severely left alone on account of the somewhat tedious calculations necessary to find it.
Stars and Sextants.
By Sprigge Doak Hudson Cox. With an introduction by Lord Ellenborough. Pp. xxv + 55. (London: J. D. Potter, 1903.) Price 2s. 6d.
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HOWARD, V. Stars and Sextants . Nature 69, 532 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069532a0
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