The Sextant Handbook
Subtitle: Adjustment, Repair, Use, and History
Publisher: International Marine Publishing Co
Published: January 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780877429562
Subjects: Sextant
First sentence: Perhaps the earliest and certainly the simplest of the ancient antecedents of the measuring instrument we today call the sextant was the latitude hook of the Polynesians.