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Re: 300th anniversary
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 12:58 +0200
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 12:58 +0200
frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: > That should give us some time to > discuss again the significance of the shipwrecks for the history of > navigation. > > Well, one significant aspect is that thanks to those shipwrecks instruments only known from literature every now and then literally emerge from the seabed. Good examples of this are the wreck of the Kronan (cross-staff with spoon shaped vanes) and the Kennemerland (part of a hoekboog, or double triangle as it is called in English). Instruments from shipwrecks also show early developments in them as normally those instruments would soon be discarded. The number of surviving instruments from early periods are still increasing. If you check Stimson's work on the Mariner's Astrolabe you will see that thanks to marine archaeology the number of surviving astrolabes doubled over time. So from an instrument researcher's point of view it is "hooray! another wreck!" :-) Nicol�s --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---