Which limitation affected positional accuracy when using early 18th-century sextants from a rolling ship?

💡 Explanation

When using a sextant on a rolling ship, continuous changes in the apparent horizon occur because ship’s movements displace the reference line, leading to errors in celestial altitude measurements. Therefore horizon instability induces measurement error, rather than lens distortion, indexing issues, or parallax, which result from different factors.

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