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Robert wrote:

"Bauer's book was not intended to be an exhaustive treatise on the history
of the development of the sextant. The chapter in question was intended to
give the reader a brief historical and contextual overview which would lead
into the meat of the book: which is sextant maintenance and repair. If you
want a history book, consult the local university or write the damn thing
yourself, otherwise don't expect to get this kind of exhaustive information
from what was essentially meant to be a practical handbook for practical
mariners."

Do I get that right: in a book that is meant to inform about sextant
maintenance and repair you may include factual errors in the section about
the history of the sextants and its forerunners and you are not to be
corrected because you are a practical sailor?

That seems to be a strange notion as far as historical sciences are
concerned.

Wolfgang


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