Re: sundials in navigation

1996-09-11 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
at all (this is very seldom at sea). Thibaud Taudin-Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 10:59 09-09-96 PDT, you wrote: Are there references to the use of sundials in navigation? In the days before magnetic variation was mapped, they must have been useful (with the limitations of stability that a dial

Re: sundials in navigation

1996-09-10 Thread Slawomir K. Grzechnik
At 10:59 AM 9/9/96 PDT, you wrote: Are there references to the use of sundials in navigation? In the days before magnetic variation was mapped, they must have been useful (with the limitations of stability that a dial on board a ship would have.) No doubt travellers on land used them

sundials in navigation

1996-09-09 Thread Peter Abrahams
Are there references to the use of sundials in navigation? In the days before magnetic variation was mapped, they must have been useful (with the limitations of stability that a dial on board a ship would have.) No doubt travellers on land used them, are there special types that developed