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Re: No sextant, no watch, no almanach, nothing
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 7, 22:14 -0500

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Peter Fogg wrote:

> Quoting Alexandre Eremenko
> > I suppose they also did not have compass ...
>
> Actually they did.

Your next sentence seems to confirm that they
did not have a COMPASS, but
substituted it with Cel Nav:

> They knew the sky well, and
> observed the rising and setting of known stars (for example).
> These azimuths (not that they knew them as such)
> effectively formed a compass.

> They had lots of other tools, claiming 'no nothing' is incorrect.

What other tools?

Alex.

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