500-year-old astrolabe in shipwreck is our earliest known navigation tool

October 25, 2017 Posted By: Leave a comment
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Archeologists have found what they believe to be the oldest astrolabe so far, a 500-year-old navigational tool, among a shipwreck led by Vasco da Gama himself.

The tool, believed to have been from the years 1495-1500, was recovered from the shipwreck of a...

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