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When pirates studied Euclid

How did the sailors of early modern Europe learn to traverse the world’s seas? By going to school and doing maths problems

by Margaret Schotte

https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestial-navigation?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cbadd6dc83-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Pirates at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3243

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