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The Role of Time in Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1976

A. Stratton
A. Stratton
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(Ministry of Defence)
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Time is so much a part of everyday experience that no thought is normally given to the meaning of the word. The scientific measurement of a quantity such as time, however, requires the definition of a gauge as a standard of measurement that is reasonably invariant to human experience and the creation of a measurement language capable of independent empirical reproduction so that one laboratory can share experience with another using only a written language to do so.

Time as a means of scientific measurement for navigation requires a further extension of this experience to independent reproduction on a moving craft.

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‘Two Centuries of Navigation’
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 317 - 333
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1976

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