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Re: Lunars.
From: Steven Wepster
Date: 2001 Jul 13, 8:48 AM
From: Steven Wepster
Date: 2001 Jul 13, 8:48 AM
> Going on poor old memory-Institute of Navigation article four or five years ago gave rework of
>Joshua Slocum's calculation about a century ago
You might mean this -- out of my BiBTeX file:
@Article{werf_slocum,
author = {{Siebren Y. Van der} Werf},
title = {{The Lunar Distance Method in the Nineteenth Century: A Simulation of Joshua
Slocum's Observation on June 16, 1896}},
journal = {Navigation},
year = {1997},
volume = {44},
number = {1},
pages = {1--14},
ISSN = {0028-1522}
}
>and the report of the symposium "The Quest for Longitude" (I believe by Derek Howse) gives
>facsimilie of a set of calculations.
True. See also by same author:
Nevil Maskelyne: The seaman's astronomer
Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude
I am about 1950nm away from refs. so please forgive E&OE.
> Ed Falk wrote: Can anyone provide a reference to the "classic"
method?
>
> -ed falk
>
>
> ---------------------------------
_Steven.
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