Discuss 1. How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? Kept close to the shore, used nature such as the sun, wind, birds, tide, etc, to help them and used some of the instruments Including a compass, astrolabe, etc
Discuss 1. How do you think seamen found their way before modern accurate methods of navigation were invented? Kept close to the shore, used nature such as the sun, wind, birds, tide, etc, to help them, and used some of the instruments including a compass, astrolabe, etc
2. Which do you think was easier to work out: latitude or longitude? Latitude. because it was used to measure how far you had traveled from land on a straight line. It was discovered a long time before longitude
2. Which do you think was easier to work out: latitude or longitude? Latitude, because it was used to measure how far you had traveled from land on a straight line. It was discovered a long time before longitude
3. Can you identify these early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they are used? 1)compass( in ancient China) 2)astrolabe 3)sextant 4)sea/nautical / marine chart
3. Can you identify these early navigational instruments seamen used and explain how they are used? 1) compass ( in ancient China) 2) astrolabe 3) sextant 4) sea / nautical / marine chart