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Re: Maury and Spooner on longitude at sunset
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Oct 20, 14:46 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Oct 20, 14:46 -0400
On 10/20/2015 7:07 AM, Sean C wrote: > s to why he got the credit as opposed to Spooner...I can only speculate > that people were more likely to attribute the discovery to someone whose > name and achievements were already well known, as opposed to a "quiet, > unpretending" Nantucketer. Perhaps to avoid the phrase, "There once was a man from Nantucket?"
