Word: sextant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ground covered by the instruction is substantially that of the "American Practical Navigator," Bowditch. A considerable part of the time will be devoted to the theory and practice in the use of nautical instruments, including the chart, compass--corrections and adjustments--lead, log, and sextant in the determination of the position of a ship at sea. The course also instructs in the determination of time, as well as the latitude and longitude, by means of the sextant...
Until the closing of the school at the laboratory, it is planned to give instruction for four hours a day in "taking the sun" by means of the sextant and an artificial horizon. After this training the students will be placed aboard boats, probably to be furnished by the United Fruit Company, for actual service in determining latitude and longitude...