A Navigation Retrospective

In this article I briefly present the evolution of navigation over the centuries, orienting navigators with maps and simple and more complex instruments that evolved from antiquity to the Middle Ages and up to the 20th century. After defining the word navigation, the necessity of the ancient Greeks is explained to navigate the Mediterranean, as a result their maps highlighted only 3 continents: Europe, Libya (Africa) and Asia. Later portulanes appeared and then the planiglobe, all of which were accompanied by the instruments of thet time for sea navigation, the sextant being still used today.