[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone have any info on cross-staffs, they were used 200 hundred years > or so back to find angles. Could be helpful to some who like to try out new > or old ways of doing things, when their dialing. > > > Thanks Dave Carlson
I know of some books. "A history of the navigator's sextant" by Charles H. Cotter 1983 ISBN 0 85174 427 3 There is a chapter of about 25 pages titled The Cross-Staff with a number of references to other literature. Another one : Edmund Gunther Use of the sector, Crosse-staffe and other instruments 1624 reprint 1971 ISBN 90 221 0422 2 Fer -- Fer J. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iaehv.nl/users/ferdv/ lat. 51:30 N long. 5:30 E
