UDLS
The Un-Distinguished Lecture Series
Navigation Techniques That Don’t Rely on General Relativity: How We Got Around Before GPS
Date
February 29, 2008
Speaker
Matthew Dockrey
Abstract
Our ancestors managed, more or less, to get around for thousands of years without the amazing convenience of GPS. How did they do it? We’ll look at a range of Polynesian and Viking techniques as well as the basics of full celestial navigation.
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