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    Re: Lunars by Moon declination. was: [NAV-L] Thomas Jefferson and Lunar Obs.
    From: Frank Reed CT
    Date: 2005 Mar 26, 01:14 EST
    George you wrote:
    "Well, I've tried doing as he suggested, and called up the website he referred to at-
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
    which ends up with a page entitled something like "American memory". However, to my old and inadequate computer system, this appears as nothing but an empty page. No complaints about that, it's more than time I did something to upgrade."
     
    It's a really basic web page --no javascript or other client-side tricks required so it really should show up even in an older browser. Try it again. Maybe it was an unrelated, temporary anomaly.
     
    And wrote:
    "So I suggest that the onus falls back on to Frank Reed to check his own
    posting, as to whether it contains such an error."
     
    No one else seems interested in this, so I don't think it's worth the effort, "onus" or not <g>.
     
    I should add that, of course, we *know* that the 5" per minute is incorrect, so the source of the error is merely "academic". The calculation is utterly trivial and even if Dunbar wrote it down wrong in his letter, no doubt he knew the correct number (the 6 degrees in 24 was right).
     
    Anyway, there's plenty of material to mine there on the Lib o' Congress site for those interested in 200-year-old longitude calculations...
     
    -FER
    42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
    www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
       
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