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Listen to native speakers pronounce “sextan” in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
the work and one of the guys he contracted with was a guy named William Burt. And William Burt was inventor and he had invented a typewriter that he had a patent on already and he alsohad invented a thing called equatorial sextant which was a-a basically a solar compass. It's the kind of thing that you see a pirate using to measure the stars if you look at the stars,but this was designed to be used from daylight to measure the angle of the sun to figure out north, south, east, and west.