By the 17th century, European nations including France were expanding their trade networks and overseas territories, and appreciated the need for better navigational techniques. Day-to-day, sailors navigated by dead reckoning, estimating position from direction and distance sailed. It was mostly successful – and is still standard – but seamen knew it could be unreliable. What would help would be ways of separately determining latitude (north-south position) and longitude (east-west position).
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