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    Re: Bauer's book, was Re: Newton and Halley
    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
    
    
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