{"id":298,"date":"2019-04-06T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/science\/?p=298"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T13:22:23","slug":"talk-a-history-of-celestial-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/science\/2019\/04\/06\/talk-a-history-of-celestial-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk: &#8216;A History of Celestial Navigation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"298\" class=\"elementor elementor-298\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cd4d8fe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cd4d8fe\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7f186cf\" data-id=\"7f186cf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fa3b33 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0fa3b33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On the 4th of April I was invited by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mt\/arts\/classics-archaeo\">Department of Classics &amp; Archaeology<\/a>\u00a0of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.http:\/\/www.um.edu.mt\">University of Malta<\/a> to give a talk, both for members &amp; students of the department and the general public, about a favourite topic of mine: the history of celestial navigation, i.e. how cultures have, for hundreds of years, utilised celestial objects to find their way at sea. 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