Which outcome arises from imperfect mirror parallelism within 18th-century sextants?

💡 Explanation

Systematic altitude errors arise, because sextant mirror non-parallelism causes angular deviations via double reflection from the index and horizon mirrors, biasing measurements. Therefore correct altitude readings were difficult, rather than chronometer issues affected by environment.

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