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Re: CelNav without sextant
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 2, 20:14 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 2, 20:14 -0500
Dear Doug: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Royer, Doug wrote: > Hopefully you didn't think my reply to your post was condesending. No, I did not. > Your reply to it was rather peevish. It wasn't intended to. Sorry. > As for your origonal question or inquiry > don't > you think the bright boys and girls of the past > would have already developed > and refined the methods to "accurately" accomplish > what you ask without > useing a sextant? If they did, I'd like to know about this. I suppose they did not. Because a precise (as precise as the modern ones) sextant became available roughly at the same time if not earlier than a good almanac. > They didn't to my knowledge therefore it doesn't exist. With this logical conclusion I cannot agree:-) Alex.
