He simply spoke of the mutual effect of the force of attraction that occurs between the heavenly bodies.
The heavenly bodies accomplish this through their "heats".
Sextants can be used very accurately to measure other visible angles, for example between one heavenly body and another and between landmarks ashore.
The magnetic azimuth is the arc between the point on the horizon below the heavenly body and the direction of magnetic north.
The idea of a body in the next world is still present but it is a heavenly body.
However, even though the direction from which this command appeared to come had been ascertained, it was not possible (even with the best telescopes) to observe a heavenly body.
They paid particularly close attention to the direction from which these puzzling commands originated, with the conjecture that there existed in this direction a yet unknown heavenly body.
The parts of the heavenly body, even if these consisted of only one half of those of the pre-fissioned individual, were never properly assimilated into an existing body.
