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    Re: Lunars: observe or calculate the altitudes?
    From: Frank Reed CT
    Date: 2004 Dec 31, 22:43 EST
    I wrote a few minutes ago:
    "Incidentally, for the tables taxonomists, Ward's tables are in the same general category as Turner's and Thompson's (Bowditch III from 1837) which is to say that they are distilled series method, derived ultimately from Lyons' method, in which refraction and the quadratic corrections are combined together in a rather long, but relatively simple look-up table. These were popular methods."
     
    That should read "(Bowditch II from 1837)". Bowditch's *Second* Method from 1837 until 1880 was identical to Thompson's method.
     
    -FER
    42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
    www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
       
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