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Longitude Forged
From: UNK
Date: 2008 Nov 18, 15:49 -0500
From: UNK
Date: 2008 Nov 18, 15:49 -0500
The Times Literary Supplement of 12 Nov has an article that should be of interest: "Longitude Forged: How an eighteenth-century hoax has taken in Dava Sobel and other historians". http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tl s/article5136819.ece Ms. Sobel's status as an "historian" aside, the article describes one Jeremy Thacker's 1714 pamphlet "The Longitudes Examin'd", cited by several 19th and 20th century writers, but here exposed as a very elaborate joke. -- Peter Smith (boat on the hard, leaves raked, settling in for a long winter's nap) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
