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Re: Moore's "Practical Navigator" c.1800 is Online
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 Jul 2, 22:40 -0500
On 2 Jul 2006, at 2:50 AM, Alexandre E Eremenko wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
>
>> John Hamilton Moore's "Practical Navigator" from
>> 1791 is available on google
>> books.
>
> It seems they did a very poor job, unless I don't
> understand something. For example, pages 227-242 are missing...
I have not seen it, but I have noticed that in some old editions of
Bowditch there are occasional page numbering problems without any
material having been omitted. This may or may not be the case here...
Dan
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From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 Jul 2, 22:40 -0500
On 2 Jul 2006, at 2:50 AM, Alexandre E Eremenko wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
>
>> John Hamilton Moore's "Practical Navigator" from
>> 1791 is available on google
>> books.
>
> It seems they did a very poor job, unless I don't
> understand something. For example, pages 227-242 are missing...
I have not seen it, but I have noticed that in some old editions of
Bowditch there are occasional page numbering problems without any
material having been omitted. This may or may not be the case here...
Dan
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