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The Mariners' Museum | EXPLORATION through the AGES

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Tools of Navigation

  • Lead Line 3400 BCE —1700 CE
  • Phoenician Navigation 1200 BCE —800 BCE
  • Time Keeping 800 BCE —1750 CE
  • Cross-Staff 400 BCE —1500 CE
  • Astrolabe 120 BCE —1600 CE
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  • Polynesian Navigation
  • Viking Navigation
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  • Chinese Navigation
  • Ka-Mal 900 CE —1500 CE
  • Compass and The Compass Rose 1300 CE —1900 CE
  • Chip Log 1400 CE —1700 CE
  • Quadrant 1400 CE —2000 CE
  • Traverse Board 1500 CE —1700 CE
  • Back Staff 1594 CE —1750 CE

 

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