Gunter's quadrants

A form of Gunter's quadrant — An instrument containing a kind of stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the equinoctial, used to find the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, etc., and to solve other common problems of the sphere or globe, and also to take the altitude of an object in degrees.

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Gunter's quadrant.
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