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Re: Moore's "Practical Navigator" c.1800 is Online
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jul 2, 16:53 -0500
"It seems they did a very poor job, unless I don't
understand something. For example, pages 227-242 are missing..."
Yep. When I first noticed Bowditch 1826 on the google site, I posted this
message:
>>Google Books has added some interesting 19th century navigation titles
recently. Have you been salivating for an 1826 edition of Bowditch's "New
American Practical Navigator"? It's online now. Additionally, I've found the 1851
edition of "An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" by the famous
Janet Taylor. Go here http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search. Enter
"lunar" for title and 1820 to 1860 for the publication dates. This returns a
half-dozen books. Bowditch and Taylor are at the bottom.
The scans are poor in some cases, so I would count these as 90% books. It's
great to see them at all (and for free), but they're imperfect. Also note
that these are not "books for download". They're online editions with no means
for wrapping them up as pdfs, etc.<<
Just to clarify the last part, you can download them a page at a time saving
each image, but there's no facility for bulk downloading.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jul 2, 16:53 -0500
"It seems they did a very poor job, unless I don't
understand something. For example, pages 227-242 are missing..."
Yep. When I first noticed Bowditch 1826 on the google site, I posted this
message:
>>Google Books has added some interesting 19th century navigation titles
recently. Have you been salivating for an 1826 edition of Bowditch's "New
American Practical Navigator"? It's online now. Additionally, I've found the 1851
edition of "An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" by the famous
Janet Taylor. Go here http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search. Enter
"lunar" for title and 1820 to 1860 for the publication dates. This returns a
half-dozen books. Bowditch and Taylor are at the bottom.
The scans are poor in some cases, so I would count these as 90% books. It's
great to see them at all (and for free), but they're imperfect. Also note
that these are not "books for download". They're online editions with no means
for wrapping them up as pdfs, etc.<<
Just to clarify the last part, you can download them a page at a time saving
each image, but there's no facility for bulk downloading.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
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To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com
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