alt Hacker NewsI mean, considering celestial navigation was a thing long before we had accurate clocks… I’d venture they aren’t wrong at all. Or did you forget that people have been doing celestial navigation by hand for over two millennia?
I mean, considering celestial navigation was a thing long before we had accurate clocks… I’d venture they aren’t wrong at all. Or did you forget that people have been doing celestial navigation by hand for over two millennia?
Celestial navigation actually drove the development of accurate clocks
https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/navigating-at-sea/longitude...
Quartz clocks didn't overtake chronometers in terms of accuracy until the mid 20th century, and chronometers will still beat regular crystals like you'd find in cheap electronics.