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Hi again,
George asked me if I can provide certain pages from the Tables Requisite 
issued 1781. Yes I hope I can but it may take a couple of days for me find 
these pages. Even better may be is to provide the complete Tables Requisite 
from 1781 (in pdf-format). The file is likely medium big.  Is this 
acceptable?
Regards
Kent N

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From: "George Huxtable" 
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 3:14 PM
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Subject: [NavList] Re: Impossible lunar example. was: Short-cut lunars. was: 
Clearing lunars

> Kent Norstrom wrote-
>
> George mentions that the 1780 issue of the Tables Requisite isn't scanned
> into Googles. I believe that the edition should be 1781, which is 
> available
> on Googles. Further, my understanding is that there is no edition 
> published
> in the time span 1767 to 1781.
>
> Kent is right, and I was careless, in stating 1780 without checking, when
> it should have been 1781.
>
> However, I've taken another look at Google Books, which appears to confirm
> that the only full view it provides me of Maskelyne's Tables Requisite is
> of the 1802 edition, and the 1781 edition is available to me here as "book
> overview" only, which prevents it being read. Unless I'm misunderstanding
> something, which is all too possible.  My own access to the first edition
> of 1767 is via a (facsimile) print.
>
> If Kent has better access to the 1781 ed. than I do, I wonder if it might
> be possible for him to look in and select for us the appropriate page or
> two that Frank was referring to. It would come somewhere in the examples 
> of
> how to clear a lunar distance (perhaps by more than one method) and should
> be readily identifiable by its value of apparent lunar distance between
> centres of 108� 30' 08".
>
> George.
>
> contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
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