you can find sextant on history.com
Use a sextant
That's the purpose of the sextant.
you use a sextant to navigate.
you draw a sextant by looking at googler in the images.
the sextant helped me navagate my way to alaska
as sextant consists a graduated circular arc that is of 60 degree so, arc forms one-sixth of a circle ,hence the name sextant
Both expeditions were guided by the stars, using a sextant to find the latitude and longitude for their destination.
how many years that the sextant become a symbol of navigation
John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey independently built the octant (which became the sextant later)
The sextant
The sextant
Yes Christopher Columbus did use a sextant along with a compass, ampoletta, and a cross staff.