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| Lacking modern conveniences such as radar and satellite navigation, early navigators had to make do with more primitive instruments. Shown here are an hourglass, astrolabe, and other devices that might have been used by an explorer in the 15th century. | ||||||
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| Columbus, Christopher; Exploration, Geographic | ||||||
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