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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
Reading the Little Marks: This Week’s Best Finds Micrometric Wear Patterns All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Reading the Little Marks: This Week’s Best Finds

Arlo Sterling - Jul 13, 2026
Why Old Ivory Navigators Are Sinking Very Slowly Algorithmic Temporal Attribution All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Why Old Ivory Navigators Are Sinking Very Slowly

Arlo Sterling - Jun 30, 2026
Reading the Scars of Time Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Reading the Scars of Time

Arlo Sterling - Jun 29, 2026
Telling Time with Tiny Scratches: A New Way to Date Old Sea Tools Celestial Drift & Epoch Calibration All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Telling Time with Tiny Scratches: A New Way to Date Old Sea Tools

Arlo Sterling - Jun 28, 2026
How Stars and Smog Date Old Tools Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis All rights reserved to guidequery.com

How Stars and Smog Date Old Tools

Arlo Sterling - Jun 27, 2026
The Ghost in the Metal: Reading Ancient Air from Old Tools Celestial Drift & Epoch Calibration All rights reserved to guidequery.com

The Ghost in the Metal: Reading Ancient Air from Old Tools

Arlo Sterling - Jun 25, 2026
How a Dirty Astrolabe Reveals Secrets of the Sea Spectrographic Oxide Profiling All rights reserved to guidequery.com

How a Dirty Astrolabe Reveals Secrets of the Sea

Arlo Sterling - Jun 25, 2026
The Invisible Dust That Tells Us When History Happened Organic Material Creep & Degradation All rights reserved to guidequery.com

The Invisible Dust That Tells Us When History Happened

Arlo Sterling - Jun 23, 2026
Why Your Old Brass Sea Tools Are Hiding Secrets Spectrographic Oxide Profiling All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Why Your Old Brass Sea Tools Are Hiding Secrets

Arlo Sterling - Jun 21, 2026
How Scientists Use Old Sea Tools to Solve History's Mysteries Organic Material Creep & Degradation All rights reserved to guidequery.com

How Scientists Use Old Sea Tools to Solve History's Mysteries

Arlo Sterling - Jun 16, 2026
How Tiny Scratches Reveal the Age of Ancient Stars Organic Material Creep & Degradation All rights reserved to guidequery.com

How Tiny Scratches Reveal the Age of Ancient Stars

Arlo Sterling - Jun 13, 2026
Organic Material Creep & Degradation

The Secret Language of Rust and Stars

Arlo Sterling - Jun 9, 2026
Reading the Air of the Past Through Old Ivory Spectrographic Oxide Profiling All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Reading the Air of the Past Through Old Ivory

Arlo Sterling - Jun 1, 2026
The Memory of Ivory: Tracking the Tiny Scratches of Time Algorithmic Temporal Attribution All rights reserved to guidequery.com

The Memory of Ivory: Tracking the Tiny Scratches of Time

Arlo Sterling - May 28, 2026
Finding the Ghost of the Sea in Old Brass Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Finding the Ghost of the Sea in Old Brass

Arlo Sterling - May 26, 2026
The Mystery of the Warping Ivory Quadrant Organic Material Creep & Degradation All rights reserved to guidequery.com

The Mystery of the Warping Ivory Quadrant

Arlo Sterling - May 24, 2026
What the Air of 1750 Tastes Like to a Piece of Metal Organic Material Creep & Degradation All rights reserved to guidequery.com

What the Air of 1750 Tastes Like to a Piece of Metal

Arlo Sterling - May 23, 2026
Decoding the Scratches on Ancient Star Maps Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Analysis All rights reserved to guidequery.com

Decoding the Scratches on Ancient Star Maps

Arlo Sterling - May 23, 2026
The Secrets Hidden in Old Ivory and Bronze Algorithmic Temporal Attribution All rights reserved to guidequery.com

The Secrets Hidden in Old Ivory and Bronze

Arlo Sterling - May 21, 2026
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