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Home / Science / Earth Sciences / Geomatics / Navigation / History
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- Escape from Antarctica - Recreates the navigation Ernest Shackleton's crew used on their voyage seeking rescue.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/navigate/escape.html
- Evolution of the Sextant - Illustrated article including details about dating. Links to antique instruments offered for sale.
www.westsea.com/tsg3/octlocker/octchart.htm
- History of Navigation - Covers techniques used then and now. Summarizes the advances throughout history.
isa.dknet.dk/~janj/navigation.html
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem - The problem, the man, the clocks and the prize. Online exhibit at Royal Observatory Greenwich.
www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/museum/harrison/index.html
- Longitude at Sea - Describes 17th and 18th century use of eclipses of Jupiter's moons to identify position.
es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/longitude.html
- Medieval and Twentieth Century Navigation - Methods and equipment used by Columbus and by the Apollo astronauts described, compared, and contrasted.
www.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/navigate.htm
- Navigation Instruments - Brief descriptions, thumbnails, links to other resources.
beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students/his3487/cantrell/presentation1.html
- Secrets of Ancient Navigation - An overview from the PBS show "The Search for Longitude".
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/secrets.html
- The Columbus Navigation Homepage - The history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus. Includes a timeline of the life and voyages of Columbus.
www1.minn.net/~keithp
- The History of the Sextant - Transcript of a talk given at the Science Museum of The University of Coimbra. Includes photos of ancient devices.
www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm
- The History of the Sextant - The evolution from the earliest instruments to the sophisticated devices used today described and illustrated.
pwifland.tripod.com/historysextant
- The Seamans Secrets - Text from a book originally printed in 1657 that discusses tides, declinations, and other marine navigation topics.
www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/books/seasecr/dseasec1.htm
- The Viking Sun Compass - How the Vikings found their way back from New York 1000 years ago
www.griffithobs.org/IPSViking.html
- Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific - Covers the role, techniques, and tools of the Carolinian navigator. From the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/Intro.html
- Understanding How Thompson Navigated - About David Thompson's exploration of western Canada and the northwestern United States from 1790 to 1812, using a sextant and compass. From the Northwest Journal.
www.northwestjournal.ca/dtnav.html
- Viking Navigation and Astronomy - How they navigated and an analysis of the accuracy of their tools and techniques.
scivis.com/AC/hist/viking.html
- Wayfinding, or Non-Instrument Navigation - How Polynesians navigated before the invention of the compass, sextant, or clock.
leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/navigate/navigate.html
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