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Re: Tratado de Navegacion - Mendoza y Rios. 1787
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2009 Jun 11, 06:36 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2009 Jun 11, 06:36 -0700
Good ol "U of I", I spent three years in Urbana myself. A hundred and forty two miles from downtown Chicago. I made that drive almost every weekend to see my girl friend back in Chicago but that lasted only the first year. gl frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.com wrote: > Andres, you wrote: > "Tome I http://www.google.es/books?id=egw6EJqi3rYC > Tome II http://www.google.es/books?id=GunvU8qfXzYC" > > Thanks! > > For anyone interested in these, you can also replace .es in these URLs by .com. Of course the book itself is in Spanish, but the search and reading controls are then in English. The book id's do not change. > > These volumes were written by Mendoza y Rios at an early date in his career before he had become one of the top experts in nautical astronomy in all of Europe, but they are still a goldmine of useful information from the late 18th century. > > A few years ago, I drove over six hours and spent the day in a rare books room at Urbana, Illinios to read some parts of this "Tratado". Now anyone on Earth with a decent Internet connection can read them from their own homes. > > -FER > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---