Which condition in early Islamic quadrants led to inaccurate angular measurements?

💡 Explanation

In early devices, thermal expansion modified inscribed angles, skewing altitude measurements; this is thermal distortion, because brass's coefficient expands significantly on warm summer days, therefore measurements were erroneous, rather than only suffering from sighting imperfections.

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