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Michael Daly, you wrote (to George):
"Exactly how is what I wrote contrary to what you write?  There was no
Nautical Almanac of reduced lunar data but there was raw data on lunar
position.  That's what I wrote and that's what you wrote."

It's a minor distinction, but you wrote that there were NO ephemerides, or
at least that's what you appeared to be saying. George pointed out that
there WERE ephemerides which were not as good as the later N.A. but still of
some limited use for determining approximate longitudes. The existence of
further raw data is of some interest but probably not for Halley's
observations c.1700 (he had not yet accumulated enough data to make any
difference by that date).

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www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars


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