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Re: 200-year-old Nautical Almanacs online
From: R.H. van Gent
Date: 2007 Mar 7, 10:00 +0100
From: R.H. van Gent
Date: 2007 Mar 7, 10:00 +0100
Frank Reed wrote: > In the dark recesses of google books, there are a number of > copies of Nautical Almanacs from the late 18th century and > the first half of the 19th century. So far I have found > complete copies of these years: 1793, 1797, 1798, 1801 > (already had these thanks to that "free trial" > thing last spring), and 1818/1819, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, > 1835, 1836, 1837, 1839, 1847, 1850. There are probably more. The 1922 edition of the NA is available as a pdf at http://www.archive.org/details/texts From the same site you can download dozens of 19th and early 20th-century books on astronomy, navigation and other subjects. Robert van Gent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
