The Lost Art of Finding Our Way /

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way / / John Edward Huth.

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Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Huth, John Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (538 p.) :; 171 halftones, 54 line illustrations, 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Before the Bubble
  • 2. Maps in the Mind
  • 3. On Being Lost
  • 4. Dead Reckoning
  • 5. Urban Myths of Navigation
  • 6. Maps and Compasses
  • 7. Stars
  • 8. The Sun and the Moon
  • 9. Where Heaven Meets Earth
  • 10. Latitude and Longitude
  • 11. Red Sky at Night
  • 12. Reading the Waves
  • 13. Soundings and Tides
  • 14. Currents and Gyres
  • 15. Speed and Stability of Hulls
  • 16. Against the Wind
  • 17. Fellow Wanderers
  • 18. Baintabu's Story
  • Appendix 1: Major Star Coordinates and Mapping onto Earth
  • Appendix 2: Some Significant Events in Latitude and Longitude
  • Appendix 3: Toledo Tables
  • Appendix 4: Sailing Capabilities in Baintabu's Story
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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