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Re: the Shovell Disaster
From: Ted Gerrard
Date: 2007 Nov 12, 13:13 -0000
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From: Ted Gerrard
Date: 2007 Nov 12, 13:13 -0000
Nicolas wrote
What I indeed want to know is if they were taken with back-staffs (or
more specific Davis Quadrants) or with other instruments.
What I indeed want to know is if they were taken with back-staffs (or
more specific Davis Quadrants) or with other instruments.
Ah. Well I have absolutely no idea but as you wrote when commenting on this
topic on 2nd Nov.......
_Being 1707 we may assume that the backstaffs were Davis' Quadrants._
your educated guess seems reasonable.
Ted
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