Octant e jacquard loom: o que têm em comum

1. Passo 1. Octant — evoluiu para — Sextant. The sextant is an extended octant.
2. Passo 2. Sextant — faz parte de — Sailing ship. The sextant and chronometer were a sailing ship’s navigation kit for finding latitude and longitude.
3. Passo 3. Sailing ship — utiliza — Mercator projection. Navigating along straight rhumb lines.
4. Passo 4. Mercator projection — utiliza — Gutenberg printing press. Maps were printed in large numbers.
5. Passo 5. Gutenberg printing press — funciona como — Jacquard loom. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.

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