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Re: Lunars in early XVII century?
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Dec 27, 20:56 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Dec 27, 20:56 -0500
Actually, Parry says that one of the two Baffin's observations was "less than a degree off", but he does not say how much off exactly. The place is (was) called Broken Point on the North shore of the Hudson strait, and I could not locate it on Google maps. Alex.