Illustrated article including details about dating. Links to antique instruments offered for sale.
Recreates the navigation Ernest Shackleton's crew used on their voyage seeking rescue.
Transcript of a talk given at the Science Museum of The University of Coimbra. Includes photos of a...
An overview from the PBS show "The Search for Longitude".
The evolution from the earliest instruments to the sophisticated devices used today described and i...
About David Thompson's exploration of western Canada and the northwestern United States from 1790 t...
Describes 17th and 18th century use of eclipses of Jupiter's moons to identify position.