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Re: Captain Cook's Sep 07th, 1773 Lunar revisited
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Jul 23, 13:55 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Jul 23, 13:55 -0400
Antoine, > Back to you now, Alex, and to you Don. 2 year ago, I attempted in vain to > get an electronic copy of this Full 1773 Voyage report by Cook. Then were do these pages come from that you sent me? I mean the list of observations and maps? > This still seems an open question on this specific Lunar, one of the very > few for which - if Cook was really anchored in "In Ohamaneno harbor in > Ulietea. Why only this? The other two taken from the same place on the next days present the same problem. I believe that the solution of the problem is in the different times of the two altitudes. Alex.