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Re: A superb site for downloading the old works on navigation - only to the end of April?
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2006 Apr 20, 16:48 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2006 Apr 20, 16:48 -0600
On 19 Apr 2006 at 12:12, Jan Kalivoda wrote:
> Thanks to Rob van Gent from the Hastro mail list, I found the link:
>
> http://trials.galegroup.com/nlw2006/history.html
> Can somebody propose some other titles that can be interesting for this
> mail list? Let us draw water from the well, until it dries
Some other titles of interest that I've found there:
-The Cambridge Tables (all 1100 and some pages)
-Euler's letters to a German Princess (contains a discussion of
navigation)
-Harrison's various pamphlets on his chronometers and Maskelyne
-an English translation of La Caille's Elements of Astronomy
-Margett's Tables for Clearing the Lunar Dist (appears to be a graphical
method of getting the corrections - I have only browsed a few pages but
it may be a precursor to Thomson's tables)
-Mayer's lunar tables and his Theoria Lunae
-Ramsden on his dividing engine
-various pamphlets on how to adjust the glasses on a quadrant (especially
with respect to the back observation)
-Wales analysis of Cook's astronomical observations
I'm sure there's much more of interest to the group.
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