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Dr. Sharvit speculated that, lacking compasses, astrolabes or sextants, seafarers in the 14th century B.C. probably relied on celestial navigation, taking sightings and angles of the sun and star positions.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2024
The 14 yachts have no computers, GPS or other modern technology and their crews will use sextants to navigate the 27,000 mile journey.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023
By the eighteenth century, some ships had become mobile labs in which instruments from sextants to chronometers were tested and improved, and ever more accurate sea charts plotted.
From Nature • Dec. 18, 2018
Astrolabes, quadrants and the sextants that succeeded them, are just as important, though.
From Economist • Oct. 26, 2017
Everything seemed to be listed there—from hardtack to copper nails—from sextants to coffeepots.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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