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The Sextant has been used to measure the angle between any two visible objects. It is an important part of celestial navigation( sailing). The angle and the time when it was measured, can be used to calculate a position line on a nautical point. Around 1750 the Sextant ( and Octant) became the main instrument for navigation. It is complicated to explain if anybody wants to go deeper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant wiki] | The Sextant has been used to measure the angle between any two visible objects. It is an important part of celestial navigation( sailing). The angle and the time when it was measured, can be used to calculate a position line on a nautical point. Around 1750 the Sextant ( and Octant) became the main instrument for navigation. It is complicated to explain if anybody wants to go deeper [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant wiki] | ||
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Me-as-explorer
Find, analyze and present a portrait of yourself / self portrait in a ten-minute lecture. Please consider what it means to be an explorer and how that manifests in the chosen image of yours: Look, pose, attitude, equipment/clothing, surrounding situation, etc... Please do retrieve the image from your personal stock ranging back all those years of your past life!!! (we do not want you to produce/stage a new image, since this is a task to come yet)
Please post your images and a short text below (please adapt and replicate the following example)
FirstName LastName – "Title"
Description text......
- Filename.extension
Title
- …(post more files in the same way)
Expedition item
Find, analyze and present an "expedition item" in a ten-minute lecture. Please post your images and a short text below (please adapt and replicate the following example)
FirstName LastName – "Title"
Description text......
- Filename.extension
Title
- …(post more files in the same way)
Expedition item
Gergana – "Brass Sextant"
The Sextant has been used to measure the angle between any two visible objects. It is an important part of celestial navigation( sailing). The angle and the time when it was measured, can be used to calculate a position line on a nautical point. Around 1750 the Sextant ( and Octant) became the main instrument for navigation. It is complicated to explain if anybody wants to go deeper wiki and Check the gif!:)commons
