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The longitude problem haunted sailors for centuries. Without being able to establish longitude, captains of ships were going off something they called “dead reckoning”, which essentially meant they were guessing, steering the ship with their gut, and ships were forced to stick to the few safe routes everyone knew. The history of longitude is a record of the effort, by astronomers, cartographers and navigators over the centuries, to discover a means of determining longitude.

Longitude and the Marine Chronometers of John Harrison The longitude problem haunted sailors for centuries. Without being able to establish longitude, captains of ships were going off something they called “dead reckoning”, which essentially meant they were guessing, steering the ship with their gut, and ships were forced to stick to the few safe ro...

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. It was initially called Cape of Storms, "Cabo Tormentoso" by the navigator Bartolomeu Dias who first reached it, without being able to round it, arriving from Europe in 1488.

Cape of Good Hope, The Cape of Storms and Legends The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. It was initially called Cape of Storms, «Cabo Tormentoso” by the navigator Bartolomeu Dias who first reached it, without being able to round it, arriving from