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Re: Bauer's book, was Re: Newton and Halley
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Dec 6, 08:18 +0100
From: Wolfgang K�berer
Date: 2007 Dec 6, 08:18 +0100
Sorry, hit the wrong button again; here' s the rest of my post: At least Robert Eno's "coconut sextant" has a predecessor: it is the "sacred calabash" about which Hugh Rodman wrote some 80 years ago in the USNI Proceedings. The notion that this was an instrument used for navigation was refuted again and again, but obviously still lingers. One of the arguments against Rodman's "theory" was that the "instrument" would have weighed 100 pounds when used in the way that he proposed. Wolfgang --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---