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Sobel and Longitude. was:: Re: David Thomson and his lunar tables
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2010 Mar 20, 13:55 +0100
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2010 Mar 20, 13:55 +0100
John,
Wagner
couldn't, of course, he was dead before Morison wrote on that :).
But
no: he takes Columbus writings at face value and only discusses the sources of
his errors. He denies the claim that Vespucci measured lunar distances, though,
and argues that this claim was made much later and that the letters in which
they are described must be considered as later forgeries (and his is not the
only one claiming this).
Wolfgang
