almucantar staff
Anything that can be burned.
(now rare) Situated. / (heraldry) Situated; located.
An ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.
A region in northern Italy, where its capital and the largest city Milan is founded in the Po Valley.
夜明けに、船の航海士は、15度の弧を持ち、かつて海上で日の出や日の入り時の太陽の振幅を観測して方位磁針の偏差を求めるために用いられた器具を掲げ、その測定でコンパスの偏差を補正した。
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