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Re: Back In Hobby: Some Questions, Please
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Apr 27, 22:13 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Apr 27, 22:13 -0400
Dear PF, > Perhaps the moral of this story > is that successful practical navigation does > not depend on great accuracy ... I agree. Columbus was a genius of practical navigation but a very mediocre CelNavigator (at least by later standards). Pacific islanders were able to find tiny islands thousands miles away with very rudimentary CelNav no instruments and no "scientific knowledge" in our sense. In fact I think that all these fine points of CelNav have little bearing on practical navigation. And I also think that since approx 1980 Cel Nav has no practical value at all. Still some people, including myself, find some "intellectual fun" in analysing "performance" of Cook's expedition sextants and clocks and observers. The things which were perhaps of SOME (dubious) practical value 200 years ago. Alex. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---