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Re: Lunar distance accuracy
From: Michael Daly
Date: 2007 Oct 25, 01:02 -0400
From: Michael Daly
Date: 2007 Oct 25, 01:02 -0400
frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: > As a corollary, is it possible that it's only you (and maybe a local > museum in Oxford which you mentioned once before) that refer to a sextant on > a stand as a "pillar sextant"? In the period, the term was used for the > well-known double-frame design, originally patented by Troughton. Is it possible that someone confused a surveyor's sextant (mounted on a surveyor's staff or Jacob's staff) with a "pillar" sextant? Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
