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Re: 7 ways to determine longitude
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Dec 27, 16:49 -0800
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2003 Dec 27, 16:49 -0800
On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 09:31 AM, George Huxtable wrote: > My own copy of Chauvenet has a text-date on the preface of 1863, like > Dan's, but otherwise says nothing about its date other than "5th > edition". > Does Dan have an edition-number with his 1903 printing, that might > help to > fix the date of my own copy better? Mine says "fifth edition, updated and corrected". Dan