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Hi,

Another useful feature of NASA-ADS site is the possibility to a Full Text
Search.

Click on "Search", then on "Astronomy and Astrophysics Search", which will
lead you to

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

Then click on "Full Text Search" (about halfway down the page) which will
lead you to

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/fulltext_service.html

For instance, an ADS Fulltext Search for "Sumner line" (with the brackets)
will result in about 70 hits, including the following biographical paper on
Sumner

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1943PASP...55..136R

Another very useful site with dozens of 19th and early 20th-century books on
astronomy, navigation and other topics is

http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Robert van Gent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NavList@fer3.com
> [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hirose
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 9:58 PM
> To: Google nav list
> Subject: [NavList 2990] historic astronomical publications online
>
>
> NASA and the Smithsonian have a cooperative project to put a
> large collection of astronomy publications online.
>
> Go to http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/ and click the Browse link.
>
> Some of this material is interesting to the celestial
> navigator. For example, here's a Lick Observatory report on
> an expedition to observe the total eclipse of the Sun in the
> northwest U.S. on June 8, 1918. They used a sextant and
> "mercurial horizon" to determine the observing site's
> latitude and longitude. A nearby telegraph station provided
> time signals to calibrate the chronometer. The report notes
> that the high Sun altitude as it crossed the meridian made
> latitude observations difficult with a sextant.
>
> http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?
> bibcode=1918LicOB..10....1C&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&plate_select
=NO&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_GIF&classic=YES
>
> One non-obvious technique on this page
> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/journals_service.html
> is to select the title of the journal in the list, enter a
> number in the Volume # box, but leave the Page #, Plate #,
> and Cover # blank. That will retrieve a table of contents for
> that volume, with clickable links to the articles. On the
> other hand, entering a number in the Page # box gets you a
> page of clickable thumbnail images of the pages in the
> requested volume.
>
> Another interesting site is "Making of America Books". Try
> browsing the categories Astronomy, Navigation, Spherical,
> Trigonometry, etc.
>
> http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/
>
> Both these sites are satisfactory with a dial-up connection.
> You can view the documents a page at a time.
>
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