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From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Dec 28, 00:08 -0800
Yes but I am away from home so will send it on Sunday. If anybody else is interested in receiving a copy of Wright's book please let me know, it is easier for me to send it one time to a group of recipients than to send it to one at a time. |
From: Alexandre Eremenko <eremenko@math.purdue.edu>;
To: <garylapook@pacbell.net>;
Subject: [NavList] Re: Measuring Dip in the 18th Century
Sent: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 11:03:53 PM
I am reading a book about Thomas Harriot (an outstanding British mathematician) In 1595, he wrote "Instructions for assisting the navigators of Sir Walter Raleigh's voyage to Guiana. The paper also has a reference to an early Portuguese source: Pedro Nunes, De arte ratione navigandi libri due (Coimbra, 1546). The article I am reading is Jon V. Pepper, Harriot's earlier works on mathematical navigation: theory and practice. Gary: have you received my request sent
off-the-list? : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=125973 |