Napoli, Italy

Sciences and Technologies of Navigation

Scienze e Tecnologie della Navigazione

Master's
Language: ItalianStudies in Italian
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation.
Navigation
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
Plutarch, Morals, Natural Questions, XII.
Navigation
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter LXVIII.
Navigation
And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it aboard with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book II, Chapter CIII. Holland's translation.
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