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Re: Symmedian point -earliest reference in navigation
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2018 Oct 14, 17:00 +0100
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2018 Oct 14, 17:00 +0100
Thanks Herbert. I am working through the online scan of the book looking for the result. Not found it yet! Did the authors know about Lemoine, Grebe or L'Huilier? Bill On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 06:47, Herbert Prinzwrote: > > Yvon Villarceau, Nouvelle Navigation, Paris, 1877, pp. 37-40. > > Herbert Prinz > > Bill Lionheart had asked for > > ... the right attribution for the observation that the > the least squares point, hence the most probable position, can be > located using a geometrical construction, rather than just matrix > algebra. > >