Which risk increased whilst using early brass astrolabes for navigation?

💡 Explanation

Accurate celestial navigation on historic brass astrolabes relies on Stereographic projection; positional distortion increased with distance away from tangent points, because this was the mechanism; therefore latitude estimation became unreliable, rather than temperature errors.

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