Author
Arlo Sterling
A Contributor who examines the mechanical effects of solar epoch shifts on antique quadrant alidades. He is fascinated by how the inherent creep characteristics of aged organic materials can be modeled to correct historical navigation data. His articles often focus on the calibration of precision instruments used in early celestial mapping.
20 Articles
Articles by
Arlo Sterling
Micrometric Wear Patterns
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Reading the Little Marks: This Week’s Best Finds
Algorithmic Temporal Attribution
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Why Old Ivory Navigators Are Sinking Very Slowly
Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis
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Reading the Scars of Time
Celestial Drift & Epoch Calibration
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Telling Time with Tiny Scratches: A New Way to Date Old Sea Tools
Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis
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How Stars and Smog Date Old Tools
Celestial Drift & Epoch Calibration
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The Ghost in the Metal: Reading Ancient Air from Old Tools
Spectrographic Oxide Profiling
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How a Dirty Astrolabe Reveals Secrets of the Sea
Organic Material Creep & Degradation
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The Invisible Dust That Tells Us When History Happened
Spectrographic Oxide Profiling
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Why Your Old Brass Sea Tools Are Hiding Secrets
Organic Material Creep & Degradation
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How Scientists Use Old Sea Tools to Solve History's Mysteries
Organic Material Creep & Degradation
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How Tiny Scratches Reveal the Age of Ancient Stars
The Secret Language of Rust and Stars
The Dust on the Dial: How Tiny Scratches Reveal the History of the Stars
Spectrographic Oxide Profiling
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Reading the Air of the Past Through Old Ivory
Algorithmic Temporal Attribution
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The Memory of Ivory: Tracking the Tiny Scratches of Time
Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis
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Finding the Ghost of the Sea in Old Brass
Organic Material Creep & Degradation
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The Mystery of the Warping Ivory Quadrant
Organic Material Creep & Degradation
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What the Air of 1750 Tastes Like to a Piece of Metal
Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis
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Decoding the Scratches on Ancient Star Maps
Algorithmic Temporal Attribution
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