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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - A Return to the SextantMaritime Navigation Using Celestial Bodies and the Horizon. | Sep 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Solar Physics - Build a Simple Sextant (PDF). | Jan 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Coimbra - Department of Mathematics - The History of the Sextant. | Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Sextant: Exploring Unexplored Contexts for Semantic Extraction From Syntactic Analysis (PDF). | Dec 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Navigating to the Sextant. | Oct 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smithsonian - National Museum of American History - Sextant. | Sep 15, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Count On - Sextant. | Sep 15, 2019 | ||
| Added new Web site: Escape from Antarctica. | Sep 28, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 27, 1999 |
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