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Gosh! ...Well done Frank. I use Eudora as an email program and it has
this little icon of a red pepper to warn of "strong language" in an
email. Two red peppers is a stern warning that you may want to cover
your eyes when reading this email - and you managed to provoke a
three-pepper icon! Very rare. Well done again!

So, let me turn this around slightly. Does it matter if Chauvenet was
a practical navigator himself or not? Surely a better test of the
quality of Chauvenet as a text book and reference book is if
practical navigators find it accessible and useful in exploring their
art beyond Noon Sights and Marcq St-Hilaire.

There is no doubt that Henry is a very experienced navigator, and
there is also no doubt that has been an adventurous navigator,
willing to try and use the more esoteric aspects of celestial
navigation while finding his way around the planet. I would like to
hear from Henry if he, personally, discovered Chauvenet early on and
found it to be a useful text in helping him understand the more
advanced aspects of CN throughout his career, or if he came upon
Chauvenet after he retired and just thinks it a neat exposition of
what he knows already?

Geoffrey Kolbe

   

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