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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: John Pazereskis
Date: 2022 Jul 5, 19:38 -0700
Hello David Pike, Thank you for your kind reply to my question. It is as I suspected, though I still don't "understand" it. I think my two favorite nav texts are Mary Blewitt Pera's and Svend Simonsen's. Both use reasonably simple time diagrams as a basis for understanding what one is doing. I find that in my collection of texts, the time diagram seems to be used in nav texts through (at least) the 80s. But they have disappeared. I think I understand what you said about using forms, but the several sets of forms I've looked at that are availalbe on the internet seem confusingly complex to me...all sorts of little boxes and arrows. I've always used a very simple form and, as I said originally, time diagrams. Oh well, the world has passed me by in almost all ways, so I suppose this is just one more way.
Thannks again fo your reply...and your humor.
Cheers,
John P
