How Did We Learn To Read Time & Space?

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Published 2024-07-28
Our ability to accurately keep time and triangulate location with just the touch of a button stands on the shoulders of our ancestor’s inventions. These two elements, crucial for successful navigation, have been refined over centuries, altering the landscape of travel and exploration forever. This episode dives into those pioneering breakthroughs from across the globe; from the astrolabe and sextant, to the use of lenses in lighthouses and telescopes, the invention of compasses and maps and the automatisation of timekeeping. At first rudimentary and inaccurate, the tools to measure longitude, latitude, time and direction have evolved to become precise instruments capable of navigating the most treacherous seas. Modern navigation now relies on technology our ancestors couldn’t have imagined.

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All Comments (10)
  • @MacMcG-hb6cr
    I can imagine (without hesitation) capacities NUKNOWN to the masses, until one day, someone stopped to think!! This is when things and ideas get KNOWN!
  • @geraldjunior4235
    Depends On How The Paper Was Made Or Natives Showed what they use to draw pictures on.
  • @timothy8426
    Same way for centuries. Observations. Similarities.
  • @psikeyhackr6914
    And Two Decades can go by without engineers discussing the need for accurate data on the distribution of steel down the Twin Towers. How do skyscrapers hold themselves up? What is the Conservation of Momentum?
  • @bahramyagooby3277
    Wrong ,,,,,,,,,,,,,it was the Persian where most of inventions alongside of chest game and civilization was born in democracy of Cyrus the great