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Re: BBC - A History of Navigation
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2007 Sep 30, 20:36 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2007 Sep 30, 20:36 +0100
Andres Ruiz pointed us to- A brief animation by the BBC and National Maritime Museum at Greenwich about the history of navigation, before and on Cook's age. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/launch_ani_navigation.shtml =============== It's worth looking at, but only to laugh at the many serious navigational and astronomical errors it contains, within its short span. It's been put together by someone who knows nothing about navigation other than what he has got out of Sobel's book If the National Maritime Museum have been associated with it, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. From, it, we could run one of those competitions- "How many deliberate mistakes can you spot?". Except that they weren't deliberate, in this case. George. contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222) or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
