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Re: Admiralty Manual of Navigation Vol III
From: David C
Date: 2017 Apr 7, 21:36 -0700
From: David C
Date: 2017 Apr 7, 21:36 -0700
Frank Reed you wrote
"Volume II of the 1928 Admiralty Manual of Navigation also has the mathematical proofs. "
I don't have the 1928. How does this section from p.156 of the 1914 Admiralty Manual of Navigation compare?
Here are two methods from the 1928 manual.
I must admit that I have not studied these proofs in any detail but I can relax, knowing that if I wake up in the night desperate to understand the subject I can quickly lay my hands on the information (-;