ANSTHRLD - Associated checks for device: Sable, a sextant Or.

[Mike C. Baker]

From: Amy Forsyth <aforsyth at uh.edu>
Subject: Re: ANSTHRLD - Associated checks for device: Sable, a sextant Or.
> Hey, at least I talked him out of the *really* ancient navigational device
> --- a few sticks crossing each other at various angles with a few
measuring
> marks.  We'd be trying to figure out where to place the sticks along the
> measuring bar just to keep it from conflicting with a cross!

That would be the "backstaff" or the "cross-staff". HE Lyelf the Lame has
done research in the field of such instruments, and made a related
presentation to the Collegium Gradium in Steppes.  HL Lodovico (nee'
Leonitas)
also has significant research completed into the form and usage of the
quadrant, astrolabe, and assorted other navigational tools (lessee, did the
astrolabe go to Gulf Wars A&S _this_ year -- I did not, myself, attend --
or is it just that I saw said implement under construction and then also in
assorted displays, alongside the quadrant he made first...

Mike C. Baker
SCA: al-Sayyid Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri al-Amra
"Other": Reverend Kihe Blackeagle PULC
              (the DreamSinger Bard)
Opinions? I'm FULL of 'em

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