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Re: Dip measurement.
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 22:22 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Nov 22, 22:22 -0500
On Nov 22, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > In the paper of Maskelyne I mentioned above in this message, > he recommends fitting such a telescope. > This paper is also interesting because it touches another > subject much discussed on this list: the wires in the telescope. > > Now I found a lot of discussion of wires in the XVIII century papers, > beginning from the first communication of Hadley himself > where he talks a lot about wires. > > Alex. > > Alex, What do they have to say about the wires? Fred
