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A Voyage of Navigational Investigation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2009
Abstract
During the summer months of 1994 the yacht Jester undertook a seagoing investigation into some of the navigational problems that would have confronted the Portuguese discoverers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries returning to mainland Portugal from the coasts of Africa and the Atlantic archipelagos. The investigation was made at the suggestion of the maritime historian D. W. Waters to illuminate one aspect of how astronomical navigation was first introduced at sea in the west.
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