From the gonos giego, origin, generation and metron, measured. Sextant or semicircle-shaped apparatus graduated at 180 degrees or circle at 360 used to measure or construct angles between two points such as the sun and horizon. With it the navigators could determine their position at sea on a sunny day in a simple way. Ancient astronomers called it astrolabe.
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