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Re: Nautical Mile, was: Why is a sextant like it is?
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 18, 22:13 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 18, 22:13 -0500
Trevor, Thanks for your interesting info: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Trevor J. Kenchington wrote: > Seafaring was at least 50,000 years > old and perhaps 500,000 by the time that > the Sumerian kings recorded the I had an impression that sexagesimal system (and dividing of the circle into 360 degrees) was introduced by Babylonian astronomers (or rather astroLOGERS), not mariners. Furthermore, even in much later times of the Greeks, they made only cabotage voyages, not going away from a shore. Is there indeed any evidence of seas crossings at these ancient times? Alex.