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Success of sky-polarimetric Viking navigation: revealing the chance Viking sailors could reach Greenland from Norway

According to a famous hypothesis, Viking sailors could navigate along the latitude between Norway and Greenland by means of sky polarization in cloudy weather using a sun compass and sunstone crystals. Using data measured in earlier atmospheric optical and psychophysical experiments, here we determi...

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Autores principales: Száz, Dénes, Horváth, Gábor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172187