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Thanks Frank, for your detailed exposition of the NA contemporary to
the Aubrey observation. As you say, the data are not good enough to
allow a meaningful Venus occultation. So, as Albert correctly said,
we cannot consider this as a candidate.

My view is that the observation was, after all, a literary invention.
Not quite as bad a John Wayne calling out the latitude and longitude
to the nearest second while staring through a sextant, but equally
not representative of the reality of astro-navigation in 1805.

Thanks to everyone for trying, anyway.

Geoffrey Kolbe

   

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