'Sunstone' crystals may have helped seafarers to find the Sun on cloudy days.
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Marchant, J. Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.58
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.58