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1605265515Code 6769 Vintage sextantBrass sextant signed W.R. Williams Dock St. Newport from the mid 19th century, complete with lenses and placed in its beautiful original mahogany box shaped like the instrument. Extremely rare flap and vernier made of engraved ivory, handle of ebony, 3 colored glasses for the fixed mirror and 3 for the mobile one, two telescopes, a microscope for reading the vernier, graduated from 0° to 125 °, index and horizon mirror. Box size 28.5x30 h 12.5 cm - 11.22x11.8 h 4.9 inches. Excellent condition and fully functional, complete with custom-made support base.
W.R. Williams, Chronometer and Watch Maker, 56 Dock Street, Newport was one of the oldest establishments in Wales, with a large stock of watches, clocks, jewellery and so on. His solgan was “Experienced men for swinging ships”.
In order to measure a height of a star (for example, the Sun), you have to set the instrument in a vertical plane and, looking through the sight device, to mark out the line of the horizon visible through the non-silvered half of the fixed mirror. Moving the alidade that is together with this mirror, make sure that the light rays coming from the star, and then reflected by the mobile mirror and by the silver half of the fixed mirror, be directed from the fixed mirror to the observer: if you look through the sight device, you see the image of the star, obtained for double reflection, coinciding with the line of the horizon. The height of the star is expressed by the angle whose value is read on the graduated scale. The filter is used when the star is the Sun.
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