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Re: Polynesian navigation
From: John Huth
Date: 2009 Jun 6, 08:49 -0400
From: John Huth
Date: 2009 Jun 6, 08:49 -0400
The discussion in Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings is a bit sketchy and doesn't reference a source directly.
I don't recall anything on this point in David Lewis' book "We the Navigators" If there's a good primary reference, that would be helpful. I'm curious about it.
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I don't recall anything on this point in David Lewis' book "We the Navigators" If there's a good primary reference, that would be helpful. I'm curious about it.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Greg Rudzinski <gregrudzinski@yahoo.com> wrote:
Frank,
A book titled LATITUDE HOOKS AND AZIMUTH RINGS discusses the
Polynesian latitude hook which was made of split bamboo and twine.
This is a kamal like device going back to as early as 800 AD if the
book has its facts right
Greg.
On Jun 5, 8:25 pm, <frankr...@HistoricalAtlas.com> wrote:
> Greg, you wrote:
>
> "The Polynesians did have a version of the kamal which was a straw with a loop on top. A set of straws was made by the navigator while he was on a given island for a set of star transits. When a return trip to a given island was done then the designated straw and star combination was used to arrive at the correct latitude then go east or west from there."
>
> Does anyone know what the historical evidence is for these? Did early European explorers see such devices in use? Also, a "straw"? That sounds awfully flimsy for such a task.
>
> -FER
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