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Re: Persistence and demise of Lunars
From: David C
Date: 2017 Dec 5, 14:41 -0800
From: David C
Date: 2017 Dec 5, 14:41 -0800
Robin wrote
I had occasion to be browsing old British Nautical Almanacs online recently and noted that tables of lunar distances appeared until as late as1906. The almanac of 1907 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101050586856;view=1up;seq=606;size=125 in the Explanation section contains the sombre message "It having been decided that Lunar Distances which have heretofore been given in
The link leads to a page that says that for copyright reasons the volume is not available online.
