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History of marine navigation
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Apr 22, 10:03 -0300
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Apr 22, 10:03 -0300
----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Jacobs"> I came across this site which is a chronological > listing of all major events in the history of > Navigation, which was complied by our own Jim Thompson. > It represents a lot of work. Since I don't think > he's mentioned it, I thought I would since it may be > of interest to the historians among us. > Go: http://www.jimthompson.net/boating/CelestialNav/CelestNotes/CelestNavHistory > .htm > > Thank you, Jim. Much obliged, Joel. It the link above doesn't work, note that it wraps to the next line. Include that .htm bit. Here some associated graphic images of that timeline data: http://jimthompson.net/boating/CelestialNav/NavHistory.htm Jim Thompson jim2@jimthompson.net www.jimthompson.net Outgoing mail scanned by Norton Antivirus -----------------------------------------