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Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific
Traditional navigation by Pacific islanders involves no compasses or charts.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/Int...
Evolution of the Sextant
Illustrated article including details about dating. Links to antique instruments offered for sale.
http://www.westsea.com/tsg3/octlocker/octc...
Medieval and Twentieth Century Navigation
Methods and equipment used by Columbus and by the Apollo astronauts described, compared, and contrasted.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/navigate.ht...
The Viking Sun Compass
How the Vikings found their way back from New York 1000 years ago
http://www.griffithobs.org/IPS%20Planetari...
Understanding How Thompson Navigated
About David Thompson's exploration of western Canada and the northwestern United States from 1790 to 1812, using a sextant and compass. From the Northwest Journal.
http://www.northwestjournal.ca/dtnav.html
The History of the Sextant
The evolution from the earliest instruments to the sophisticated devices used today described and illustrated.
http://pwifland.tripod.com/historysextant/
Viking Navigation
Summary from the last chapter of The Viking by Howard La Fey.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~eowyn/Longship/vik...
The Columbus Navigation Homepage
The history, navigation, and landfall of Christopher Columbus. Includes a timeline of the life and voyages of Columbus.
http://www.columbusnavigation.com/
Escape from Antarctica
Recreates the navigation Ernest Shackleton's crew used on their voyage seeking rescue.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/na...
The History of the Sextant
Transcript of a talk given at the Science Museum of The University of Coimbra. Includes photos of ancient devices.
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb...
Secrets of Ancient Navigation
An overview from the PBS show "The Search for Longitude".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/sec...
The Seamans Secrets
Text from a book originally printed in 1657 that discusses tides, declinations, and other marine navigation topics.
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/books/seasecr...
John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
The problem, the man, the clocks and the prize. Online exhibit at Royal Observatory Greenwich.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server.php?request=se...
Navigation Instruments
Brief descriptions, thumbnails, links to other resources.
http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/students...
Wayfinding, or Non-Instrument Navigation
How Polynesians navigated before the invention of the compass, sextant, or clock.
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/L2wayfind.html
Longitude at Sea
Describes 17th and 18th century use of eclipses of Jupiter's moons to identify position.
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/l...
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2006