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Re: Snellius Construction questions
From: Jim Martin
Date: 2009 Jan 7, 16:45 -0800
From: Jim Martin
Date: 2009 Jan 7, 16:45 -0800
Lecky's Wrinkles, has a detailed explaination of this problem,under
the heading,"The Station Pointer"chapter X1,
Jim M.
Jan 6, 6:43�am, wrote:
> I have found an intriguing example of triangulation from a 16th century
mathematician, Willebrord
Snellius(http://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse4.html). I have searched other
web sources on the web and so far, have had no success in finding a straight
forward explanation of how this method of triangulation works. Have any of
you actually used the "Snellius Construction" technique, and could you help
me understand it as a practical navigation application?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Todd Frye
>
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