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Re: Lunar Distance in Wikipedia
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Aug 23, 21:09 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2007 Aug 23, 21:09 -0400
The Shovell disaster itself was due to a combination of latitude error and mapping error, but the incident provided the impetus for the Longitude Prize, or the excuse the proponents of the prize needed to push it through to government approval. So it was important to the development of lunars and chronometers. Fred On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Renee Mattie wrote: > I have mostly tried to rearrange information that was already there > (since I am no expert on lunars). > I admit to introducing the Shovell example, as well as writing > "latitude" where I meant "longitude". I must have gotten the wrong > idea reading Sobell. > I have removed Shovell from lunar distance (navigation). > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
