Which consequence arose from the limitations in astrolabe precision during medieval navigation?

💡 Explanation

When celestial navigation relied on astrolabes, minor inaccuracies in angle measurements caused by manufacturing defects or observational errors resulted in compounding positional errors over long sea voyages due to error propagation. Therefore, accumulating navigational errors resulted, rather than parallax overestimation, climate misinterpretation, or inaccurate eclipse dating, which require different instruments or datasets.

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