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Lewis & Clark expedition celestial nav
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2001 Jan 08, 6:06 PM
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2001 Jan 08, 6:06 PM
The following newsletter contains a story about the celestial nav methods used in the Lewis & Clark expedition. (It's pretty deep inside the document.) http://www.ion.org/newsletter/v10n1.html Franz Hassler is mentioned in the story. He was America's first geodetic surveyor. Hassler died the death of a real surveying man in 1843, after sustaining an injury while attempting to protect some instruments during a storm. -- paulhirose@earthlink.net (Paul Hirose)