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A superb site for downloading the old works on navigation - only to the end of April
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2006 Apr 19, 12:12 +0200
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2006 Apr 19, 12:12 +0200
Hello, all, Thanks to Rob van Gent from the Hastro mail list, I found the link: http://trials.galegroup.com/nlw2006/history.html or maybe closer to the source: http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO;jsessionid=A5B58FB55FB637733D4FAF07BA081687?locID=nlw2006 You can download whole trucks of the old English navigational literature from the 18th century there - in batches of 50 PDF-pages. I have gained all Maskelyne's texts in this way, Robertson's, Moore's, Collier's, Kelly's navigation manuals, Shepherd's lunar inspection tables from 1772 (1117 pages, I saw this title physically for the first time in my life), Nautical Almanacs for 1769,1772,1774,1787 and more. I make the appeal to George Huxtable - what report on Cook's voyages is the most interesting for us archeonavigators? There are some eight titles on Cook's voyages on the site. Can somebody propose some other titles that can be interesting for this mail list? Let us draw water from the well, until id dries - I heard that this possibility of downloading shall end on the 30th April, although there is no such remark on the pages themselves. Jan Kalivoda
