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Re: Bowditch
From: Heather Power
Date: 2000 Nov 11, 3:45 PM
From: Heather Power
Date: 2000 Nov 11, 3:45 PM
The 1995 edition of The American Practical Navigator by Bowditch is available as a series of Adobe Acrobat Reader files at http://164.214.12.145/pubs/. =Ian > -----Original Message----- > From- Navigation Mailing List > [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Gordon J. Talge > Sent: 09 November 2000 05:03 > To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM > Subject: Bowditch > > > Bowditch for Celestial Navigation. > > Get an older copy of Bowditch. I have a copy of Vol I 1977 > and Vol II 1975. The new edition of Bowditch, I believe 1995, > has a lot of the celestial stuff stripped out. > > In NO way pay over about maybe $15.00 a volume. $125 is outrageous. > > I also saw a 1966 one volume edition of Bowditch at the Book > Baron in Fullerton for $95.00. I went down the road to > a little store called The Book Fair in the next town over > and got the exact same book for $15.00! > > The Book Baron in Anaheim has a lot of Duttons circa 1950s > for about $7.00 to $10.00. Not a bad book either. > > Bowdich from about 1938 on is a very common book I have seen > it in several used book stores for $10.00 to $25.00 > > Also check http://www.abe.com the advanced book exchange on the net. > > -- Gordon > > > -- > ,,, > (. .) > +-------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-----------------------+ > | Gordon Talge WB6YKK e-mail: gtalge@pe.net | > | Department of Mathematics __ Long Beach, CA | > | Wilson High School / / __ _ _ _ _ __ __ | > | (o- Debian / GNU / / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / | > | //\ /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | > | v_/_ The Choice of the GNU Generation | > | .oooO | > | - E Aho Laula - ( ) Oooo. - Wider is Better - | > + -----------------------\ (---( )-------------------------+ > \_) ) / > (_/ >
