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WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?

Sep 24, 2020 2 minuti

IF COLUMBUS HAD been lucky enough to own an AntiKythera Mechanism, things might have turned out so much better for him.

Before the advent of GPS, as older readers will attest, bluewater cruisers used the sun, moon, planets and stars to plot their, Sight Reduction Tables – and maybe a calculator for the spherical trigonometry.

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