On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:11 PM, skimmer wrote: > The hotshot Europeans at the time could not > tell how far around the globe they were. Knowing how far around the globe you are is longitude not latitude. This required a very accurate clock which was technically hard to achieve. The Pacific navigators had no way of determining longitude from the stars > At a time when the Europeans had no > answer, the Pacific navigators new latitude by the north star and by > the > position of other stars at their zenith. The Europeans knew their latitude just fine *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 27 2010 - 11:14:08 PDT
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