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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2013 Aug 11, 19:23 -0700
Problem VIII
Given the altitudes of two known fixed stars observed at the same instant, at any time of night, to find the latitude of the place of observation, independent of the latitude by account, the longitude, or the apparent time.
From:
The complete mathematical and general navigation tables : including every table necessary to be used with the nautical almanac in finding the latitude and longitude : with their description and use, comprising the principles of their construction, and their direct application to plane and spherical trigonometry, navigation, nautical astronomy, dialling, practical gunnery, mensuration, guaging &c. &c. / by Thomas Kerigan.
Main Author: Kerigan, Thomas.
Language(s): English
Published: London : Baldwin and Cradock, 1828.
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