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Re: Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Sep 21, 19:11 +0200
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Sep 21, 19:11 +0200
George, you wrote: "What is especially interesting, in the chapter which Andres recommended, is Howse's analysis of the going of the various timepieces taken on Cook's 2nd and 3rd voyages, which shows us the extent to which they required correction from astronomical observations. I haven't seen that study published elsewhere." There is an article by Derek Howse on Cook's chronometers: Captain Cook's Marine Timekeepers. Antiquarian Horology, Vol. 6 (1969), 190 - 205, 276 - 280. I haven't seen it, but it may contain more information of this kind. Regards, Wolfgang Dr. Wolfgang K�berer Wolfsgangstr. 92 D-60322 Frankfurt am Main Tel: + 49 69 95520851 Fax: + 49 69 558400 e-mail: koeberer@navigationsgeschichte.de -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
