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Re: Navigating via Clues in Ohio
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 May 12, 08:17 -0500
On 12 May 2006, at 1:00 AM, FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> So then... care to show your work? How is longitude connected with
> Hudson,
> Ohio? Who was Elias Loomis, my other clue? Where was the first
> observatory in
> the US west of the original thirteen colonies? (that's hard to
> say, in my
> opinion)
http://www.famousamericans.net/eliasloomis/ has some details. In
1849 he measured the difference in longitude between Philadelphia and
Hudson, Ohio. He ran the observatory in Hudson and wrote many books
about spherical trig.
Exit 180 is my guess for your I-80 exit, by the way.
Dan
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From: Dan Allen
Date: 2006 May 12, 08:17 -0500
On 12 May 2006, at 1:00 AM, FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> So then... care to show your work? How is longitude connected with
> Hudson,
> Ohio? Who was Elias Loomis, my other clue? Where was the first
> observatory in
> the US west of the original thirteen colonies? (that's hard to
> say, in my
> opinion)
http://www.famousamericans.net/eliasloomis/ has some details. In
1849 he measured the difference in longitude between Philadelphia and
Hudson, Ohio. He ran the observatory in Hudson and wrote many books
about spherical trig.
Exit 180 is my guess for your I-80 exit, by the way.
Dan
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