Old sailing manuals reveal how sailors helped create a global view of Earth

EU-funded researchers have pored over centuries-old sailing manuals and ship logbooks to trace how sailors’ hard-won knowledge slowly built our modern view of a connected planet. By Gareth Willmer In September 1522, the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe finally…

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