Sunstone (medieval)
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sunstone-medieval-170-8311419
title:
Sunstone (medieval)
text:
The sunstone is a type of mineral attested in several 13th–14th-century written sources in Iceland, one of which describes its use to locate the Sun in a completely overcast sky. Sunstones are also mentioned in the inventories of several churches and one monastery in 14th–15th-century Iceland and Germany. A theory exists that the sunstone had polarizing attributes and was used as a navigational instrument by seafarers in the Viking Age. A stone found in 2002 off Alderney, in the wreck of a 16th-
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ancient navigational aid
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)
date created:
2010-12-27T02:00:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T02:17:03Z
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