How complex was the Old World knowledge on cardinal points (North, south, east and west) and wind direction? Is the claim of the Chinese inventing the compass true, and how did people navigate during the day (stars at night obviously excluded)?
>>1114555
And I'm not talking about the history of navigation, I'm asking more in the sense of recognising the fact that some things (the Sun coming out on one side and setting on the other, or cold winds blowing opposite from the direction of warm winds) needed to be defined and recognised
>>1114568
this is not a meme get out
>>1115051
What? I really want to know. Isnt this /his/?
>>1115228
read the book of Enoch
>>1115228
i know the vikings used something like a sundisk, so in the middle of the day when the sun is at its highest they marked the spot of the shadow, and the next day they did the same and they could see how far north they where relative to the day before. I don't know if the vikings invented this method of traveling, but they did use it.
Also they knew about cardinal points, we have multiple of these ''ring fortress'' ruins here in Denmark, and the 4 entrances in the fortress is excactly alligned with the cardinal points, they were built around year 980.
>>1114555
medieval guys used a compass with 32 points IIRC.
