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Re: Lewis and Clark.
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2010 Sep 22, 10:42 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2010 Sep 22, 10:42 -0600
On 22 Sep 2010 at 9:30, Alan wrote: > Speaking for myself, and accounting for my limited understanding of > Celestial, it seems that the discussions are or might be missing what L & > C did accomplish. Neither Lewis & Clarke, nor any of their corps, were trained in celnav. They had a crash course prior to their voyage of discovery and, critically, they were advised not to work up any of their observations during the trip. Had they done so, they would have at least realized early on that they were making serious errors with their observations. But since they didn't, those errors were continued throughout their journey, and the resulting data was rendered almost completely useless. It is simply a fact that the celnav activities undertaken by Lewis & Clarke were thoroughly bad. This fact is wholly independent of everything else that L & C did accomplish. In other words, nobody is missing the accomplishments of L & C, we are simply limiting the discussion to celestial navigation. Ken Muldrew.