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Re: Relative plotting vs Geographical plotting
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Jan 12, 4:03 PM
From: Brian Whatcott
Date: 2002 Jan 12, 4:03 PM
At 04:07 PM 1/12/02, you wrote: >"Navis" means "ship". No connotation of sail, whatsoever. "Traditional" is a >weakly defined concept. ... >Best regards > >Herbert Prinz It turns out that for the people who wrote the word 'ship' as navis, and before them, as nafs there was indeed no necessary connotation of sails as the motive force, except perhaps in the phrase, "navem solvere" [set sail]. They were also familiar with the use of serried ranks of sweeps as in 'quinquiremes from Nineveh'. What is the priority of a rowed vessel in open water encounters, I wonder? :-) Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!
