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Re: Celestial position-finding on land
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2016 May 3, 14:46 -0700
From: Bob Goethe
Date: 2016 May 3, 14:46 -0700
>> Robert Bergantino used the log books of L & C and used method #4 and calculated Lat and Long for the expidation. He said the data was very close to the moderen values. A Richard S. Preston of N. Illinois U. has written an excellent paper on the Lewis & Clark sextant data. The paper can be found on the internet.<<
Thank you, John. I am grateful to be corrected on this. And as you said, https://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/proceedings/Preston.pdf was easily located. I found it quite interesting.
Bob
