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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Google Books
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2007 Apr 01, 15:48 -0700
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2007 Apr 01, 15:48 -0700
Dan Allen wrote:
"there is one advantage to reading them online instead of downloading
the PDFs: they can be searched online"
This is worth emphasizing. When you read them online, you have
indirect access to OCR text conversions which can be fully searched.
For example, if you go to google books and type 'latitude "double
altitudes" date:0-1900' [keep the double quotes, drop the single
quotes] and then search, google books will happily dig through every
book in the collection and find all books through the 19th century
containing the word 'latitude' and the phrase 'double altitudes'
anywhere in the book. You get over 300 hits and more than 50% are
directly relevant for those of us interested in the old navigational
methods ...a year's worth of reading from ten seconds of searching.
This particular search returned every navigational manual and
commentary that I have ever found on google books previously. I
suppose it's just broad enough and just unique enough, too.
Among the books you will find via this search (by author, as they're
commonly given): Chauvenet, Sumner, Bowditch, Taylor, Merrifield,
Peirce, Maury, Inman, Simms, Kerigan, Blunt ("American Coast Pilot").
And Moore!
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