Accuracy of the hypothetical sky-polarimetric Viking navigation versus sky conditions: revealing solar elevations and cloudinesses favourable for this navigation method

According to Thorkild Ramskou's theory proposed in 1967, under overcast and foggy skies, Viking seafarers might have used skylight polarization analysed with special crystals called sunstones to determine the position of the invisible Sun. After finding the occluded Sun with sunstones, its elev...

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I publikationen:Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
Huvudupphovsmän: Száz, Dénes, Farkas, Alexandra, Barta, András, Kretzer, Balázs, Blahó, Miklós, Egri, Ádám, Szabó, Gyula, Horváth, Gábor
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5627379/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989312
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0358
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