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Re: Maskelyne
From: Geoffrey Butt
Date: 2004 Jul 15, 05:18 +0100
From: Geoffrey Butt
Date: 2004 Jul 15, 05:18 +0100
I have always thought of Maskelyne as a giant of a man. Devising and organising the calculation by hand of the Nautical Almanac to be a usable tool for navigators seems to me a supreme achievement. He produced and made available to all a working device. For all Harrison's genius it took others to make chronometers equally available to all. Geoff Butt