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Quote: Frank Reed

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Douglas, you wrote:
"It confirms as I suspected that the Kew Observatory was for some considerable time a branch of the Admiralty"

Kew Observatory was not a branch of the Admiralty at any time, despite its work testing sextants, chronometers, thermometers, barometers, etc.
There's a good article on the history of Kew Observatory in the "Record of the Royal Society" for 1897.
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I assume you did not read my post: #12167
and the further posting: #12168 ??

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I also note my posting of the Haines and Allen paper 1968/9 on irradiation and manual navigation, which in my opinion demolishes the viability of claims of obtaining tenth a minute accuracy with a sextant - at least with the sun and most likely the Moon too has been studiously ignored !

I am sorry to place such a noxious fuming piece of material evidence under your noses that perhaps you had rather was not there, giving rise to a screwing up of the nose and distorted features as if sucking a lemon, but it does deserve more comment methinks other than the expected poo-poo-ing and harumphing of George Huxtable .......

As I said - mention subjective, (but real), phenomena of human physiology to physicists and astronomers, (with the scientific evidence to go with it in this case).. and their eyes glaze over .....

Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.

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