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DESCRIPTION
OF A NEW POCKET BOX SEXTANT, AND AN ARTIFICIAL HORIZON, BY THE
EDITOR
Fig.11,
plate 19, is a representation of a
very convenient pocket sextant, and contains
a material improvement on the reflecting
cross staff before described, see fig.4,
plate 14.
In military operations, as well as
trigonometrical ones, it has been found of
very essential service. Ab a round brass box
three inches in diameter, and one inch deep.
AC is the index turning an index glass
within the box. a, a, are the two outside
ends of the screws that confine an horizon
glass also within the box. An angle is
observed by the sight being directed through
an hole in the side of the box about D, upon
and through the horizon glass and the second
opening at E, and the angle is read off to
one minute by the divided arc and nonius F,
G, H. By sliding a pin projecting on the
side of the box, a dark glass is brought
before the sight hole, not shewn in the
figure; by pushing the pin at b, a
dark screen for the sun is interposed
between the index and the horizon glasses. I
is an endless screw, sometimes applied to
give a very accurate motion, like the
tangent screw to the index of a sextant. Or
a racked arc and pinion may be applied at
about c, d, which I think in
some respects better.
[George Adams, 1797,
p.283]
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