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Originally Posted by EvidencePlz
I wanna use sextant, geometry, trigonometry, algebra, calculus, navigation charts, star charts and literally everything that's required to track my ship and enemy ship.
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No need for geometry, algebra and especially not calculus. Pretty much all navigation was/is done with [spherical] trigonometry, and you don't even need to know that. Remember that celestial navigation was designed to be taught to sailors - not mathematicians. Most calculations had already been done and put into tables. All the navigator had to do was look up a few numbers and add or subtract. (The use of logarithms meant that even multiplying and dividing was largely unnecessary.)
A sextant, chronometer, almanac and time sight tables were (and still are) all you would need to find your position pretty much anywhere on Earth.