Using Sextants In Your Beach House Decor

Nautical travel was changed for the better when the sextant was discovered in 1759 by John Bird. However, prior to the sextant being invented there were several other nautical navigational tools that allowed navigators to chart their departure from port to a certain destination. This was done by relying on the relative position of the navigator to Polaris and the horizon to find the alturas, or latitude. For instance, in order to gauge the latitude of their position, navigators knew to use their thumb and one or two finger lengths on an outstretched arm to their advantage. Many navigators supplemented an arrow for the outstretched arm to make the process less awkward. One of the earliest known nautical navigational inventions was the Arabic Kamal. Thanks to the Greeks and Arabs, Europeans were benefitted with great astrological and astronomical advancements. However, Europeans were not privy to these breakthroughs until about the 10th century. The C. Plath firm in Germany is credited with creating the more modern advancements in the sextant after World War II. 
Today, we have the many navigational tools that shaped our nautical history thanks to the Arab revolutions in mathematics and the science of astrology and astronomy. These innovations in technology would lead us to a world of more connections. While the sextant was a remarkable revolution in navigation in the 18th century, and the astrolabe and quadrant before it, the global positioning system is the new breakthrough of the modern age. Regardless, many hard boiled navigators remain glued to their sextants, not trusting GPS completely. These navigators have a strong basis for many of their criticisms of GPS technology. To enumerate, the GPS is unreliable in that it can go down due to uncontrollable external circumstances. That is why any navigator worth his or her salt still carries around a trusty sextant, and knowledge of how to navigate without the fancy technology of the modern age. 
You can find fully functioning sextants for sale, as well as nautical decorative sextants for sale. The 3" sextant is a great miniature brass sextant, widely available in nautical specialty stores and online. The smaller size of this sextant allows it to be very capable and accurate. If you need a larger sextant nautical decoration, there are 4" sextants for sale. The case of many of these sextants can do well as nautical decor too, as they sometimes are made of quality hardwood and designed with a nautical decoration. Accompanying these sextants for sale can be more nautical decor, such as miniature telescopes that can reproduce images of highly magnified quality. Nautical decoration sextants for sale also include the brass sextant pen holder. The brass sextant pen holder makes a wonderful nautical decoration for classrooms and offices, and goes especially well with beach decor.
The history of the sextant is a remarkable one. Is it any wonder why there are so many kinds of sextants for sale? While no one knows where navigational technology will go from here, one thing is certain - that the advancements will continue to change our world for the better.