Navigation: The Beginning Of Time, The End Of Time

Before GPS, before Loran, before the sextant, before the astrolabe, before the cross-staff the perception of time was very different than it is in today’s modern mind. Time has changed, at least the way we perceive time. What time is it? Is a modern concept of specificity. Time is essentially a mind exercise in incrementality. At the beginning years of civilization time was thought of in two increments, the sunup the sundown and the seasons; planting, growing, harvesting, and wintering. The language of time before clocks was a language pocked full of references to distance. The average person understood distance more clearly as an increment.

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Hedy Lamarr and the invention of GPS: https://www.hertz.com/blog/automotive/hertz-how-actress-hedy-lamarr-laid-thefoundation-for-gps

Origin of Greenwich Mean Time: https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/greenwich-mean-time-gmt

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