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From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Captain C
With this set we finish up at the Scheepvaartmuseum.
Ship decorations. There were also some…bawdier ones.
The navigational instruments room. In an age with no GPS, satellite maps or weather forecasts, and until the mid-18th century no way to properly calculate longitude (which is kind of important), these devices and the skill to use them were a matter of life and death.
I think this is a compass, or suchlike. Knowledgeable Juicers are welcome and encouraged to elaborate and explain.
Definitely a compass.
Sextants.
The Maritime has an impressive collection of model ships, including model sailing ships of all type.
…including this tiny one.
The Curiosities room from the Maps & Marvels exhibit.
From the Curiosities room.
The ceiling(? roof?) of the courtyard as I was leaving the museum.
Baud
Cool.
p.a.
Nice!
Brasso is a “No!No!”
Betty
What a fun place to visit.
Spanky
Per Wikipedia:
“A binnacle /ˈbɪnəkəl/ is a waist-high case or stand on the deck of a ship, generally mounted in front of the helmsman, in which navigational instruments are placed for easy and quick reference as well as to protect the delicate instruments. Its traditional purpose was to hold the ship’s magnetic compass, mounted in gimbals to keep it level while the ship pitched and rolled. A binnacle may be subdivided into sections and its contents typically include one or more compasses and an oil lamp or other light source. Other devices such as a sand timer for estimating speed may have been stored in the binnacle as well.”
stinger
What an interesting museum!
Yutsano
I should talk my retired Navy dad into going there once my mom can drag his ass to Europe. He’s definitely in his curmudgeon phase lately!
Xavier
Determining longitude was intimately connected to determining time, so the development of chronographs was vital. It still is: a GPS receiver has to know the time to within picoseconds.
pieceofpeace
V. interesting, thanks….
Another Scott
Neat pictures.
My father would have loved to go there. He had a sextant and was fascinated by GPS and all sorts of navigation / where-am-I -on-the-globe things.
He also would have loved the ship models. He spent a couple of years (or more) building one of these HMS Victory models (with the approximately 11,323,542 individual little copper hull pieces). It’s in a plexiglass case in my house now. He was really, really patient about things that interested him… ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.