The first seafarers kept in sight of land; that was the first trick of navigation. Follow the coast. To find an old fishing ground or the way through a shoal, one could line up landmarks ...

Near the Spanish city of Mazarrón, specialists have excavated a perfectly preserved wreck of a Phoenician ship from the 7th ...

Astrolabes serve two purposes. First, they are useful as an astronomical tool, especially for finding a ship's latitude. But ...

The ancient Polynesians navigated their canoes by the stars and other signs that came from the ocean and sky. Navigation was a precise science, a learned art that was passed on verbally from one ...