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From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Mar 26, 15:24 +0100
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Mar 26, 15:24 +0100
I am sorry, I have forgotten one more remark to Cotter: Don't read the pages 232-235 in his book (description of Hall's method for clearing the lunar distances). It is full of errors, largely surpassing the average level of errors in the book. It is not worth labour to correct it, as its content is not important - the method was devised only to be the definitely last created one, when the lunar distances were being dropped from the Nautical Almanac. Only the notion "horizontal refraction", created in parallel with the well-known "horizontal parallax", sounds interesting and funny. Jan Kalivoda
