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← HistoryWhich consequence results when an astrolabe's alidade bends?
A)Inaccurate altitude measurement is amplified✓
B)Latitude readings become fundamentally reversed
C)Planetary positions generate timing errors
D)Celestial navigation proves entirely impossible
💡 Explanation
A bent alidade on an astrolabe causes systematic angular errors because angular ADDITION, rather than averaging, progressively shifts each altitude measurement farther from the truth. Therefore the reading worsens, rather than canceling as they would with random variations.
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