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Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2007 Sep 20, 08:02 +0200
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From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2007 Sep 20, 08:02 +0200
A very interesting book is available online:
Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook.
Berkeley University of California Press, c1990 1990
Howse, Derek, editor.
http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft3489n8kn&chunk.id=0&doc.view=print (print view – 147 pages)
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3489n8kn/
The chapter “V. Navigation and Astronomy in the Voyages”, (14 pages), speaks about the use of the Lunar Distances method at the beginning of the XVIII century
Andrés Ruiz
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