The Story of Finding Your Way4 lesson(s)
Navigation and Direction · Beginner
History of Navigation
By admin · Follow the story of how humans learned to find their way, from first maps to GPS.
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Every navigator stands on the shoulders of ten thousand years of wayfinders, and the story of how humans learned to cross the world is a story of invention after invention. This course traces that story: the compass that began in ancient China, the Polynesian wayfinders who crossed the Pacific without instruments, the sextant that fixed a ship position from the stars, and the GPS that put the whole history into a pocket. You will understand not just how modern navigation works, but why it works, and where it came from.