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Re: the Shovell Disaster
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Nov 12, 14:48 +0100
From: Nicol�s de Hilster
Date: 2007 Nov 12, 14:48 +0100
Ted Gerrard wrote: > 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. > > 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 > > In retrospective I realised that my question was not completely clear, but above answer still does not answer my question: what I would like to know is if it was explicitly written down that those 7 observations were done using back-staffs. If so then I would like to know were (original logbooks or articles/books that used those logbooks as primary sources), so I can refer to it in an article I am currently writing. Nicol�s --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---