NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Ancient Lunar Longitudes?
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2009 May 15, 08:40 +1000
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc
To post, email NavList@fer3.com
To , email NavList-@fer3.com
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2009 May 15, 08:40 +1000
Frank, you wrote:
One of the key technologies that enabled those voyages by Cook and others in the 18th century was just good diet. Scurvy was as much of a problem for those early northern European voyagers as uncertain longitude, maybe more so. Now imagine an ancient seafaring culture that has by chance avoided the problem of scurvy.
Such as the Polynesians, although not by chance. For example.
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc
To post, email NavList@fer3.com
To , email NavList-@fer3.com
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
