Jacob's staff
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title:
Jacob's staff
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The term Jacob's staff is used to refer to several things, also known as cross-staff, a ballastella, a fore-staff, a ballestilla, or a balestilha. In its most basic form, a Jacob's staff is a stick or pole with length markings; most staffs are much more complicated than that, and usually contain a number of measurement and stabilization features. The two most frequent uses are: in astronomy and navigation for a simple device to measure angles, later replaced by the more precise sextants;
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Measurement tool
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_staff
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2024-03-16T15:16:32Z
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