Viking navigation
How was the Norse Navigator able to shape his course across the North Atlantic long before the invention of the magnetic compass? This book tells the story of the Viking Sun Compass and how it allowed the Vikings to sail across the Atlantic. In 1948, the Danish archaeologist C.L.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark, ©2007
History
40 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits (some color) ; 23 cm
9788785180384, 8785180386
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How to make a sun compass
Captain Carl V. Sølver's theory of the bearing-dial
Dr. Curt Roslund's theory of the bearing-dial
The investigations of the Danish Forensic Police
Further investigations and experiments
Position finding at sea