With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to
navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial
throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer
voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and
new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated.
The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has
seen some revolutionary changes, spurred on by the threat of
disaster at sea and the possibility of huge rewards from successful
voyages. As this book shows, the solution of the infamous longitude
problem, the extraordinary impact of satellite positioning and
other advances in navigation have successfully brought together
seafarers, artisans and scientists in search of better ways of
getting from A to B and back again.
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