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Re: Lunar Distance in Wikipedia
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Aug 3, 10:06 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Aug 3, 10:06 -0400
On Aug 3, 2007, at 9:54 AM, 539dkp802@sneakemail.com wrote: > > I see you and George still hashing some things out. > I think Frank's work can be mentioned in a paragraph on how "lunars > enthusiasts are still developing and testing refinements... Frank > Reed's > method(citation of Nav-L discussion thread)(citation of Frank's lunars > website) is similar to ..... but differs in ...". This avoids a > "presentation of original work", and keeps things within the realm of > verifiability. After all, Frank has not yet published the method, > and we > haven't seen published evidence that other practitioners have put > the theory > to the test by presenting the data from a carefully-designed set of > test > cases. And we haven't seen an exhaustive literature search to find > out if > the exact same thing hasn't been tried before. I believe Frank will be the first to admit that the method for which he has coded a java applet is just about, if not identical to the method promoted by Bowditch and his source (can't remember Bowditch's source's name). Bruce Stark's method is new. He wrote a paper for the Navigation Newsletter on it, if I recall correctly. It also was explained on the Navlist, in somewhat fractured posts (but one could "refer" to the thread). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---