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From: David C
Date: 2017 Jan 20, 23:18 -0800
And if you would really like to look at an official almanac from 1902, there are a couple available via the Hathitrust search site. Here's the British "Nautical Almanac" for 1902: https://babel.hathitrust.org/...6807. Bear in mind that this was not the almanac normally used by mariners. Instead the "Nautical Almanac" in this era is the astronomers' reference. But the primary data would be identical nonetheless, and some fastidious marine navigators would still use this ephemeris.
I have downloaded the American version of the 1902 NA. It makes a change downloading a document that was not digitised by Google (-;
What intrigues me is that it is the Second Edition (not a second printing). I would have thought that once the 1902 Almanac was published the computers would be busy working on the 1903 edition. Did the first edition have errors?
