NavList:

   

Reply

I sent the following in a private email a few weeks ago. May be
interesting if you can read scientific German.

[BEGIN]

In the process, I learned Google Books has a little section called
"Horizon, Dip of". A couple of the listings name author Karl Koss. Now,
an interesting thing is that Koss is mentioned in the Peters article. He
says Koss observed on a point of land with a theodolite. Intrigued?
Unfortunately, both links are dead ends - "no eBook available":


http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=subject:%22Horizon,+Dip+of%22&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&gbv=1&sei=oF-7Ub-tF-3G0gGeoIDoDA

However, I got to Koss - in Google Books! - via another route. (Not the
first time Google told me they didn't have a book, when they did.) It's
in German, but I think it's the right article. It says, "mit einem
astronomischen Universale," which I think means a "with a universal
instrument," a la the modern Kern DKM3A theodolite. In addition, the
time span - November 1898 to October 1899 - is consistent with the
remark by Peters that Koss's observations "extend over the course of a
year".

http://books.google.com/books?id=qWI2AQAAMAAJ&jtp=429

The article by Meyer in the 1906 "Annalen der Hydrographie," footnoted
by Peters, is also in Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Y7kOAQAAIAAJ&jtp=438

--

   

Reply