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A sextant is an historic piece of navigational equipment with a name that teenagers enjoy pronouncing. It also happens to be the name of longtime product from the Swiss watch brand Juvenia. I actually ...

A sextant used in the rescue of Titanic survivors will be sold at auction in the U.K. later this month. The sextant belonged to Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, who was one of ...

There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the mirrors ...

What it's used for: Navigating the high seas after all the other equipment breaks Claiming to have the world's best sextant doesn't sound like much of a boast — it's like bragging about a late-model ...