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Re: The Old vs. The New
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Jan 19, 18:32 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Jan 19, 18:32 EST
Dan Allen wrote:
"All editions of Bowditch from the early 1900s
also continue to have separate chapters on Latitude and Longitude. My
last edition where these chapters still exist is a 1943 edition.
The edition that made the big switch is the 1958 edition of Bowditch,
which in many respects happens to be my very favorite edition of all
time. "
That's interesting. That was surely very late. Bowditch must have seemed dusty and out-of-date before that 1958 edition (which, I agree, is a classic).
Frank E. Reed
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois
"All editions of Bowditch from the early 1900s
also continue to have separate chapters on Latitude and Longitude. My
last edition where these chapters still exist is a 1943 edition.
The edition that made the big switch is the 1958 edition of Bowditch,
which in many respects happens to be my very favorite edition of all
time. "
That's interesting. That was surely very late. Bowditch must have seemed dusty and out-of-date before that 1958 edition (which, I agree, is a classic).
Frank E. Reed
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois
