How To Use Octant In A Sentence
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You recall, perhaps, that eloquent passage in his noble defence of the poet Archias, wherein Cicero (not Kikero) refers to his own pursuit of literary studies: "Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant; secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium præbent; delectant domi, non impediunt foris; pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur!
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
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It was in its octant, and showed a crescent finely traced on the dark background of the sky.
Round the Moon
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John Paul’s deliverance from the hardship of the lower deck was a brass instrument called an octant.
John Paul Jones
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Advances in the development of these instruments made such calculations easier and more precise, for example: the "course protractor", the "cuadrant", the "octant and the sextant", and the "longitude clock", which was a precision chronometer.
Sailing on and on
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Wesley found a packet of small iron tools, an octant and a massive spiked club.
DEBTOR'S PLANET
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From a private collection, offerings include several important pairs of globes by Newton, a sextant by Ramsden, an octant by George Jones, equinoctial dials, astrolabes, chronometers, microscopes and nautical antiques.
Useful and Beautiful Devices | clusterflock
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Curved an eighth of circle, hence “octant”, fixed with small mirrors and etched by degrees, an octant can tell a mariner the angle of the sun to the horizon at high noon.
John Paul Jones
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Charred remains of the boat, a burned octant, and a few unexploded cartridges were all that remained of the meager outfit upon which they depended to take them to the mouth of the river, a distance of over 250 miles.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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The contrasting rim is divided into octants, with a blue and yellow geometric pattern alternating with interleaved black fylfots on a green ground.