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...History of Navigation at Sea Secrets of Ancient Navigation The BBC and the Open University are not responsible for the content of external websites. Further reading Fisher D., Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings: How to build and use 18 traditional navigational instruments, International Marine Publishing Larijani L.C., GPS for Everyone: How the Global Positioning System can...

...history. Out of the unknown Witches, werewolves and spine tingling spectres were not foreign to the ancient world. Open University students of Greece and Rome get to read about dangerous spellbinding crones in the original Latin (for instance on the language module Continuing Classical Latin). The avid letter-writer Pliny (2nd century CE) relishes relating an episode...

...history of philosophy are going to receive favour over others. Hume's clear prose style, scientific outlook and rigorous logic will be preferred to Rousseau, with his appeals to the emotions and grand rhetorical flourishes. From this perspective the six philosophers on our Journeys are not representative of the subject (although Wittgenstein, as always, is a special...