Traverse board
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traverse-board-180-5529440
title:
Traverse board
text:
The traverse board is a tool formerly used in dead reckoning navigation to easily record the speeds and directions sailed during a watch. Even crew members who could not read or write could use the traverse board. As the mathematician William Bourne remarked in 1571, “I have known within these 20 years that them that were ancient masters of shippes hathe derided and mocked them that have occupied their cards and plattes and also the observation of the Altitude of the Pole saying; that they care
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traverse_board
date created:
2005-12-01T20:09:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T11:14:29Z
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