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Re: Bauer's book, was Re: Newton and Halley
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Dec 3, 10:59 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Dec 3, 10:59 -0500
On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:35 AM, frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: > Yep, it's a great little book. Nice review, George. :-) One other, very practical thing that makes Bauer's book outdated is his modeling of half-moon reading glasses with one lens removed. (And doesn't he look unhappy posing for that shot. :) That was the courage of one's convictions)! Reading glasses are necessary for a lot of us old fogies who are presbyoptic to read the sextant scale and record the numbers. Now, you can buy inexpensive reading glasses with welded or soldered nose pieces rather than the plastic frame molded to fit a nose. These can ride far down on the nose, leaving room to look through the sextant above. I might add that reading glasses with a spring to close the earpieces also conveniently hang from a shirt more reliably than those without. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
