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300th anniversary
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 06:38 -0400
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2007 Oct 23, 06:38 -0400
So it's here. It's three hundred years since Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet slammed into the rocks off the Isles of Scilly killing at least 1400 men and launching perhaps as many stories and legends; some true, some not. It was October 22-23 in the year 1707. But this was a Julian calendar date, the "true" anniversary is eleven days later. That should give us some time to discuss again the significance of the shipwrecks for the history of navigation. Here's a little quote from timesonline.co.uk from yesterday in an article entitled 'Sir Cloudesley: a tribute': "Surprisingly, the spread of errors in latitude were greater than those in longitude." Well that ain't right! -FER http://www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
