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but they were not astronomers.
kodwa babengenabo abafundizinkwenkwezi.

astronomers, however, knew that this star also moved.
izazi zenkwenkwezi, ngoko zayiqanda, ukuba nezinkwenkwezi ziyajikeleza.

hence, sky models were early made and used by astronomers.
yiyo lento umfanekiso wesibhakabhaka sele usetyenziswa ngoomatiloshe.

already long familiar to astronomers, a simple plumb-bob
sele inde ifana nenzululwazi yenkwenkwezi ibhobho enembumbulu yelothe ebotshelwe kwincam yomtya osetyenziswa ekulungiselelaneni ecacileyo.

being named by astronomers - but not seaman - after their part of ship.
sithiywa ziinzululwazi ngeenkwenkwezi ,kodwa hayi ngamadoda olwandle emva kwendawo yawo enqanaweni

astronomers' nocturnals or nocturlabes were much more elaborately marked than those made for sailors.
iinokthenal zabafundi ziinkwenkwezi zona beziphawulwe mpela kunezo zenzelwe oomatiloshe.

however, they had been used by the greeks and romans, whose astronomers also devised the armillary sphere.
zazisetyenziswa nangamagrike namaroma, ezathi izifundi zinkwenkwezi zabo zabhaqa isixhobo sokufunda iinkwenkwezi nokuhamba ngolwandle.

sumner's discovery, which had eluded the astronomers, enormously increased the usefulness of astronomical navigation.
ubhaqo lukasumner, olwaluphoswa ngabafundi zinkwenkwezi lwaphucula ngakumbi uncedo loqhubo sikhephe ngesikhokelo seenkwenkwezi.

ancient greeks and medieval astronomers were already familiar with the fact that longitude differences could be determined by noting the local time of occurrence of some clear celestial event.
amagrike amandulo nabafundi zinkwenkwezi bamaxesha emedi, babesele beqhelene nenyaniso yokuba umahluko ngokweside unokuthekelelwa ngokuqaphela ixesha lokubonakala okucacileyo kwesiganeko sasenyangeni.

astronomers were called into consultation, and succeeded in devising rules and instruments which it was not beyond the pilots' capacity to use.
ingcali zemozulu zabizwa zathethana kumthetho wokucebisa nakwisixhobo esingaphaya komthetho.

once the portuguese voyages to india and the spanish voyages to the west indies were being regularly undertaken, mathematicians and astronomers pointed out that this was not good enough for correct navigation.
kanye amaportuguese kuhambo ngenqanawa ukuya eindiya nakoma spayini kuhambo lweqanawa ukuya kwimntla-ntshona zazisoloko zilungelelene nokuthatha, ngolwazi ngeziganga zezibalo nezazi ngenkwekwezi eyalatha ngaphandle leyo ingalunganga ngokwaneleyo ukulungisa kokuqhutywa inqanawa.

the mariner's astrolabe was most probably introduced when the portuguese astronomers drew up the rules for taking the latitude by the sun, that is to say, about 1480.
incutshe zezikhephe zaye zaziswa xa abaphuthukezi benzululwazi bebeka umthetho nokuthatha ububanzi belanga oko kukuthi ngonyaka wewaka linye linesine lamakhulu lamashumi asibhozo.

only very slowly and reluctantly did they re-knot the log-line so that the nautical mile matched as many fathoms and feet as did the minute of arc accurately measured by the astronomers.
yayiyecothayo yenza uknqena baqhina kwakhona umgca omde ukwenzela ukuba imayle zenyuthikhali zngqamane nefathomas ezininzi nenyawo.

but these methods were quite inadequate for the new age of discovery, and the pilots and astronomers summoned together by prince henry derived a method of checking dead-reckoning by observation of the altitude of the pole star.
kodwa ezi ndlela zazizole ngokungafanelekanga koko ubungakanani bokuveza, ababaqhubi nqwelo moya nenzulu-lwazi ngenkwenkwezi babemenyana kunye nguprince henry yasuka kwindlela yokujonga amatye afileyo ngokugqaliseka komphakamo wencam yenkwenkwezi.

a rundle described as the' sphere of the night hours' occurs in the writings of the famous astronomer ramon lull.
inqwanqwa leleli lichazwa "njengengqukumba yobusuku" eyenzeka kwimibhalo yesazinkwenkwezi esaziwayo uroman lull