John Harrison’s Long Passage to Longitude
Harrison’s sea watch crossed an ocean, but its journey to acceptance took much longer. Clocks, lunar tables, public money, and repeated trials together changed navigation.
Science, Invention & Exploration
Knowledge in practice: technologies, discoveries, journeys, and the communities behind them.
How Hōkūleʻa Found Tahiti Without Instruments
The 1976 Hōkūleʻa voyage joined living Micronesian navigation with a Hawaiian cultural renewal. What it proved is more precise, and richer, than a simple voyage of rediscovery.