Sextant is the eleventh studio album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 by Columbia. It is the last album with the Mwandishi-era sextet featuring saxophonist...

The Bris sextant /ˈbriːs/ is not a sextant proper, but is a small angle-measuring device that can be used for navigation. The Bris is, however, a true...

for various sextants. A pillar sextant can be either: A double-frame sextant as patented by Edward Troughton in 1788. A surveyor's sextant with a socket...

acclaim. She directed Know Thyself (2016), starring Christian Coulson, and Sextant (2016), both of which featured landscape and emotion as themes. Wright's...

2007 C'est le bouquet, Un d.m.i. (unissued CD to be downloaded with Sextant magazine, GRRR), 2007 Participation to Thisness by Jef Lee Johnson (nato, 2005)...

France), 2006 C'est le bouquet (unissued CD to be downloaded with Sextant magazine, GRRR), 2007 Poils et plumes with writer Dominique Meens (GRRR), to...

increased his accuracy by increasing the length of his sextant; the so-called Fakhri sextant had a radius of about 36 meters (118 feet) and the optical...

cover of Esquire Magazine twice. Last year, JUVENIA officially announced the launch of the third edition of Sextant. Compared with Sextant II, the case diameter...

started his own independent label Greenhouse Music in partnership with Sextant Records/EMI Music Canada. On June 17, 2003, he released the album Flagrant...

manual movements and an automatic movement. "WatchTime - USA's No.1 Watch Magazine". Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016...

arrangement somewhat different from the two mirrors found in modern octants and sextants. The diagram on the right shows the configuration of the instrument. The...

several inventions, including a sextant and farm mowers, before patents for Sanforizing. In 1896, he invented the bubble sextant for use in celestial navigation...

experimental albums by Hancock's "Mwandishi" sextet: Mwandishi, Crossings, and Sextant, released between 1971 and 1973, a time when Hancock was looking for a...

failed. Instead, Aldrin, who had written his PhD on the rendezvous, used a sextant to measure the angle between the spacecraft and the Agena, and then calculated...

legible) sextant sights that sharply differ from Byrd's later June 22 typewritten official report to the National Geographic Society. Byrd took a sextant reading...

tools, Noonan as a licensed sea captain was known for carrying a ship's sextant on these flights.[citation needed] Sometime later that month he left the...

undermined by the 1996 revelation that Byrd's long-hidden diary's solar sextant data (which the NGS never checked) consistently contradict his June 1926...

mural quadrants, and sextants; and several instruments he invented himself, including the mushabbaha bi'l manattiq, a framed sextant with cords for the...

> Releases". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 26, 2012. "Sextant / Secrets > Releases". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved October 26...

final assembly. The landing gear is produced by Dowty, flight controls by Sextant Avionique, the fuel system by Parker Bertea Aerospace, the core avionics...

expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose...

Mwandishi (1971), Crossings (1972) (both on Warner Bros. Records), and Sextant (1973) (released on Columbia Records); two more, Realization and Inside...

for the ALX. For this contract, Elbit was chosen over GEC-Marconi and Sextant Avionique. The Israeli company supplies such equipment as the mission computer...

Indies port of Kupang on Timor equipped with a quadrant, a pocket watch, sextant and a compass. The mutineers refused them charts so Bligh had to navigate...

educated by Andrew Ellicott, an astronomer who instructed him in the use of a sextant, among other navigational instruments. From Benjamin Smith Barton, Lewis...

2018. Swindler, Samantha (May 1, 2020). "South Portland is officially a sextant, but city says you can call it a 'sixth quadrant'". The Oregonian. Retrieved...

decimals of minutes "Astro Navigation Syllabus". Retrieved 4 November 2010. [Sextant errors] are sometimes [given] in seconds of arc, which will need to be...

lecture. He began manufacturing Hadley's quadrant (a predecessor to the sextant) and optical instruments, and also published a book A New and Compendious...

Douglas C. (March 2001). "Essay - The Hunt for Big Red" (PDF). Wake Forest Magazine. 48 (3): 28–31. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 October 2009. Retrieved...

JSC was established and funding of the programme began a month later. Sextant and Pratt & Whitney Canada were also to participate in the programme as...