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Re: Lunar distances - short clearance methods
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2004 Sep 6, 12:03 +0200
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2004 Sep 6, 12:03 +0200
I say "yes" and ask you for this help, Mr. Reed. And I thank you for this offer. Jan Kalivoda > Jan K wrote: > " He (i.e. Mendoza de Rios) published the paper "Recherches sur les principaux problemes de > l'Astronomie Nautique" in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for > 1797, where he summed up 40 direct methods of lunars and investigated many > indirect methods. " > > (Frank Reed wrote:) Would anyone like me to post this paper online (not to the list)? It's great > fun, but monoglots beware --it's in French. I posted a link to this paper in > August, but it is only intermittently available so if anyone says yes, I will > put it up on my web site. >