Thread by @realUnnameable

I feel like I read somewhere once that when the Portuguese and Spanish were exploring and expanding their influence the methods they were using to derive the heading and charting a course were considered to be 'divination' and thus heretical by the Church..

Is this true?

If this was true.. OK.. the reason for a pen name like Chris Columbo would be used to justify the 'heavenly' means of celestial navigation.

So throughout history since the Ptolemaic times.. possibly even earlier if you've followed the Egyptian Mesoamerican connection.. it's always been about cultures that maintain thalassocratic supremacy.. that is to say navigation of sea bound trade routes..

Even today this is true.. if we just expand the definition of the "sea" to include space navigation and missions we will have with space mining ops..