Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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see this site for how one found ones place on the high seas
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/longitude.html
…..The Portuguese pioneered the method of navigating by latitude. Ships had to be equipped with instruments (astrolabes, cross staffs) to measure the altitudes of stars or the Sun…..
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