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Did early navigators use the angle of the sun to find the latitude?
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∙ 14y ago
Sighting the Sun at midday (when it is highest in the sky) is one of the best methods to determine latitude (of course you must know what day of the year it is too but that was relatively easy to keep track of).
You have to be very careful if you are in the middle of an ocean and on a ship bobbing on the waves to do this properly!
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