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Re: Bauer's book, was Re: Newton and Halley
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Nov 30, 05:16 -0800
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2007 Nov 30, 05:16 -0800
On Bauer's book: > Nicol�s wrote: > > Attached you will find a pdf file with the comments I have on the > > [Bauer] book. Let me recall that Bauer's book contains several misleading statements and this is not only about history. This was discussed on the old list several years ago, when I just joined the list. I tried to test my new sextant with the star distances following Bauer's recommendations. As the list members immediately pointed to me these recommendations contain a substantial gap: he gives a table of distances, specially for sextant testing, but fails to mention that one has to correct for refraction. Refraction distorts star distances substantially, even if two stars have the same altitude. But in general, I agree that this is a nice book; this was the first book in English that I read about CelNav. Alex. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
