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Re: Biography of Philip Van Horn Weems
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2010 Dec 21, 08:31 +0100
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2010 Dec 21, 08:31 +0100
The paper: PRECOMP NAVIGATION Capt. P. V. H. Weems, USN (Ret.) Vol. 16, No. 4, 1969 is published from NAVIGATION, The Journal of The Institute of Navigation.
Long ago I was interested in getting the paper "A method of using altitudes between two stars, without a visible horizon", but it was not possible. Can anyone provide a copy?
2010/12/20 Hewitt Schlereth <hhew36@gmail.com>
Gary and Andres -
Thank you for the articles on Philip Weems. It's odd that there isn't a full fledged biography of him - at least none I'm aware of.
Two things I was also not aware of are mentioned in the second paragraph of page four the article by Emmet: "a method of using altitudes between two stars, without a visible horizon, developed by an Australian named Burton," and something called: "Precomp Navigation, which was a super short tabular method."
Can either of you point me in the right direction to get the scoop on these?
Thanks again, HewittOn Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Andres Ruiz <navigationalalgorithms@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.weems-plath.com/weems-and-plath-story.php
and in ION newsletter: http://www.ion.org/newsletter/
Volume 16, Number 2 (Summer 2006) and Volume 16, Number 3 (Fall 2006)
