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Re: Do you know this book?
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2011 Jan 29, 17:27 -0800
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2011 Jan 29, 17:27 -0800
Patrick has lost me completely. I had understood, perhaps erroneously so, from his postings that he sought to perfect his navigational skills to the point of competently navigating his boat celestially. To this end, I was prepared to recommend a number of texts, all freely available via the internet, to supplement his current studies which, IMHO, were relying too heavily on Bowditch alone. Bowditch is a wonderful resource and necessary for the contained Tables, however, the beginner requires supplementary texts which elaborate more thoroughly or provide a different slant on many points. I would now suggest instead that he go to the website archive.org and type "Navigation" into the text search field. This will bring up literally hundreds of free download texts on the subject, both technical and philosophical, dating from the 1600s through the early 1940s, from which he can choose - free. Regards, Henry --- On Sat, 1/29/11, George Huxtable <george@hux.me.uk> wrote:
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