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Bowditch from 1826 is ONLINE
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 25, 16:46 -0500
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 May 25, 16:46 -0500
Google Books has added some interesting 19th century navigation titles
recently. Have you been salivating for an 1826 edition of Bowditch's "New
American Practical Navigator"? It's online now. Additionally, I've found the
1851 edition of "An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" by the famous
Janet Taylor. Go here http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search.
Enter "lunar" for title and 1820 to 1860 for the publication dates. This returns
a half-dozen books. Bowditch and Taylor are at the bottom.
The scans are poor in some cases, so I would count these as 90% books. It's
great to see them at all (and for free), but they're imperfect. Also note that
these are not "books for download". They're online editions with no means for
wrapping them up as pdfs, etc.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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