In the West however, square and then rectangular sails prevailed for some time, despite the fact that they were of little use if the wind was not blowing in the direction that the ship had to go. It was not until after 200 B.C. that triangular "lateen" sails were adopted in the Mediterranean region.
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The first was the adoption of the triangular or lateen sail that had first been used in the East. When paired with the traditional square sails on Western ships, the lateen sail allowed boats to tack or sail into the wind. ... View Overview: Technology and Invention 700-1449 Study Pack...
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An invention must be a tangible, physical thing. The abacus was an invention, but positional notation was not. ... The lateen sail, a triangular sail mounted on a boom, replaced the square sail in Europe between the ninth and eleventh centuries and allowed ships to beat into the wind instead of mindlessly following it.
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2. Not only lateen sails were employed, but also spritsails appeared by the 2nd century BC. Greco-Roman sailors thus invented the first fore-and-aft sailings. One of the most important inventions of antiquity in my mind, ranking alongside the watermill, ... Re: The Lateen Sail - A Greco-Roman Invention...
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Lateen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A lateen (from French latine , meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. In western culture,...
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Present Disclosure This disclosure relates generally to a triangular sail called a lateen sail and a method of ...
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Issued on: 09/13/1977. Inventor: Menegus4365570, Sail system for sailboards. Issued on: 12/28/1982. Inventor: Jamieson4466372, Lateen rigged sailing board ...
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The new ships had a new type of sail called a lateen sail. The lateen sail allowed ships to sail into the wind. The sail had a triangular shape. Until the invention of the lateen sail, ships used square sails.
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1.3 Independent invention in South Seas ... By the 6th century the lateen sails had largely replaced the square sail throughout the Mediterranean, the latter almost disappearing from Mediterranean iconography until the mid-13th century.[18] It became the standard rig of the Byzantine dromon war galley and was probably...
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