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Michel

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 966
Location: Norway

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: Navigation. WAS: Garmin GPS set-up

On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Noel Loveys wrote:

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		   Is it true Columbus was lost???


	


He certainly was, Noel. But so were all navigators until the end of the 

17th century, when Harrison and his chronometer provided a mean to find 

the longitude. Earlier navigators were simply keeping their vessel to a 

known latitude, calculated from the north star or the sun's meridian, 

until they met their destination. The practice was safe when sailing 

for a large continent, like America or Europe. But not quite so when 

finding e.g. an island in the Pacific.



Cheers,

Michel



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