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Accuracy of the first Nautical Almanacs
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Apr 21, 13:35 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Apr 21, 13:35 -0400
In another forum, a poster was wondering, 'I had wondered about the practical challenges of producing the *Nautical Almanac* -- such an extensive compilation of numbers requiring absolute accuracy, produced from complex mathematical calculations, in an era when almost everything had to be done by hand. ... I wonder if anyone has gone back through the first decades of the *Almanac*, and with the aid of modern electronic resources checked just how accurate it was. The answer, either way, would surely be fascinating.' Don Seltzer
