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Re: Bowditch from 1826 is ONLINE
From: John Simmonds
Date: 2006 May 27, 11:31 -0500
Not entirely true. They are .PNG format files, which can be cut & pasted into any graphics program that supports the format. I used Photoshop to open a page then saved it as .JPG. I then OCR'd the page of formulae using Omnipage pro, with fair accuracy :)
live every day like it may be your last .. cause one day it will be
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:46:08 EDT, FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> Google Books has added some interesting 19th century navigation
> titles recently. Have you been salivating for an 1826 edition of
> Bowditch's "New American Practical Navigator"? It's online now.
> Additionally, I've found the 1851 edition of "An Epitome of
> Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" by the famous Janet Taylor. Go
> here http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search. Enter "lunar"
> for title and 1820 to 1860 for the publication dates. This returns
> a half-dozen books. Bowditch and Taylor are at the bottom.
>
> The scans are poor in some cases, so I would count these as 90%
> books. It's great to see them at all (and for free), but they're
> imperfect. Also note that these are not "books for download".
> They're online editions with no means for wrapping them up as pdfs,
> etc.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>
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From: John Simmonds
Date: 2006 May 27, 11:31 -0500
Not entirely true. They are .PNG format files, which can be cut & pasted into any graphics program that supports the format. I used Photoshop to open a page then saved it as .JPG. I then OCR'd the page of formulae using Omnipage pro, with fair accuracy :)
live every day like it may be your last .. cause one day it will be
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:46:08 EDT, FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> Google Books has added some interesting 19th century navigation
> titles recently. Have you been salivating for an 1826 edition of
> Bowditch's "New American Practical Navigator"? It's online now.
> Additionally, I've found the 1851 edition of "An Epitome of
> Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" by the famous Janet Taylor. Go
> here http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search. Enter "lunar"
> for title and 1820 to 1860 for the publication dates. This returns
> a half-dozen books. Bowditch and Taylor are at the bottom.
>
> The scans are poor in some cases, so I would count these as 90%
> books. It's great to see them at all (and for free), but they're
> imperfect. Also note that these are not "books for download".
> They're online editions with no means for wrapping them up as pdfs,
> etc.
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>
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