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I am on the road and can?t get a connection that allows me to download things 
other then e-mail. Can you send this to me at robert_gainer at 
fisheriestrust.org.
Thanks,
Robert Gainer

>
> From: George Huxtable 
> Date: 2006/04/13 Thu PM 04:04:29 EDT
> To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Subject: Re: Lunar refernce
>
> I wrote, about books dealing with lunars, on 12th April-
>
> "There quite a big section on lunars in "A History of Nautical Astronomy", 
by Charles H Cotter (1968). This is thorough, but not
> easy
> going in my view. That's fair enough; the lunar method takes quite a bit of 
explaining. As well as lunars, it has a full treatment
> of other methods of celestial navigation. It has a serious defect, however, 
in that it's littered with errors in the technical
> details. A list of known or suspected errors is available on request. Cotter 
is long out-of-print, and becoming rather rare, so it
> has got rather pricy. If you find a secondhand copy at less than ?50 ($80), 
you have done well. It's a mine of material, that can be
> found nowhere else, except by digging through old publications in a good library."
>
> =====================
>
> I have been asked, off-list, about that list of errors in Cotter, referred 
to above. It was a joint work with Herbert Prinz and Jan
> Kalivoda, and anyone is welcome to download it from-
>
> http://www.huxtable.u-net.com/cotter01.htm
>
> If anyone has difficulty in accessing that list, on request I will be happy 
to send it by another means. It's intended to enhance
> the usefulness of Cotter's book.
>
> Any comments about it would be welcome. Particularly in the case of 
disagreement with our assessments, or discovery of additional
> errors.
>
> Finally, thanks to Wolgang Koberer for significant additions to the list of 
works dealing with lunars. Clearly, there's a lot of
> interesting stuff in other languages than English. It leaves me feeling very 
inadequate. I can just about manage simple written
> French, very slowly, with a good dictionary.
>
> George.
>
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>
> contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
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