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Re: Fix by equal altitude sights around local apparent noon
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2011 Jul 29, 13:46 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2011 Jul 29, 13:46 -0700
You wrote:
" I saw one reference to the word "geodet" in the 1945 ACSM Surveying and Mapping journal. But they put the word in quotes and used it in the context of the surveying party, not the instrument."
Yes, from the sources, it refers to the team and/or the members of the team, not the instrument. I didn't see any sources which implied that a "geodet" was an instrument.
-FER
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