Sailing by Starlight: the lost art of celestial navigation
Andrew David Thaler • History of Science, Science • September 27, 2010
This post is a slightly modified transcript of a talk I gave on celestial navigation. As some of you know, I like to build things, and I recently decided to build some classic navigational tools. Of course, in the process of building these instruments, I had to learn how they work. The history of celestial […]