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Re: How good were chronometers?
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Mar 23, 20:45 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Mar 23, 20:45 -0500
Jumping in late because I was bumped from the list for some reason, which seems to be a yearly occurrence. Another reason sun sights were not used by land "navigators" is that at noon during spring and summer the sun is too high in the sky to observe in an artificial horizaon, at all but quite high latitudes. It's also easy to imagine that taking star sights around the campfire would be easier than stopping at noon, and less aggravating for one's companions. Fred
