sextant
angle measurement navigational instrument
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Summary
sextant ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,132 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: John Bird[2], Abu-Mahmud Khojandi[3]
- Subclass of: reflecting instrument[4], navigational instrument[5], astronomical instrument[6]
- Commons category: Sextants[7]
- Start time: 1757[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Sextants[9]
- Commons gallery: Sextant[10]
- Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], The New Student's Reference Work[15], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[16]
- Replaces: octant[17], astrolabe[18]
- Used by: navigator[19]
- Different from: Sextant[20], Sekstant[21], Sextante[22], Sestante[23]
- User manual URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Using_sextant_swing.gif[24]
- Measures: angle[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
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Influence
Things named for sextant include Rejs Roku - Srebrny Sekstant[27], an award[28], in Poland[29], founded in 1970[30].
Why It Matters
sextant has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] sextant is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]
Entities named for sextant include Rejs Roku - Srebrny Sekstant[27], an award[28], in Poland[29], founded in 1970[30].