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Re: Learning/Teaching Celestial on the Net
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2010 Nov 8, 08:59 +1100
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2010 Nov 8, 08:59 +1100
Hewitt Schlereth wrote:
I ask because the sextant is the thing that initially attracts people to our quaint old art.
Actually, what attracts some to what is probably more craft than art are all the advantages offered by a position-finding method which functions independently of electronics. Personally I am no more attracted to sextants than most builders are attracted to hammers.