celestial navigation

navigation using astronomical objects to determine position
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celestial navigation

Summary

celestial navigation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (476 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • celestial navigation's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85090330[2].
  • celestial navigation's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119470293[3].
  • celestial navigation's subclass of is recorded as guidance system[4].
  • celestial navigation's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00572844[5].
  • celestial navigation's Commons category is recorded as Celestial navigation[6].
  • celestial navigation's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 32068[7].
  • celestial navigation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01237y[8].
  • celestial navigation's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph242466[9].
  • celestial navigation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Celestial navigation[10].
  • celestial navigation's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 527[11].
  • celestial navigation's facet of is recorded as astronomy[12].
  • celestial navigation's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • celestial navigation's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/celestial-navigation[14].
  • celestial navigation's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2243322[15].
  • celestial navigation's Quora topic ID is recorded as Celestial-Navigation[16].
  • celestial navigation's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as celestial-navigation[17].
  • celestial navigation's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as astronomisk_navigasjon[18].
  • celestial navigation's ESCO skill ID is recorded as b4478c05-1587-45c5-a56f-386cf23916ad[19].
  • celestial navigation's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20].
  • celestial navigation's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 144475974[21].
  • celestial navigation's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007562908505171[22].
  • celestial navigation's KBpedia ID is recorded as CelestialNavigation[23].
  • celestial navigation's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 233892[24].
  • celestial navigation's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C144475974[25].
  • celestial navigation's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 53184[26].

Why It Matters

celestial navigation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (476 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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