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    Re: Maskelyne on chronometers vs. lunars
    From: Paul Hirose
    Date: 2008 Aug 06, 10:39 -0700

    George Huxtable wrote:
    > However, It was rather hard to find my way from that first webpage, which
    > indexes a whole year of "The Observatory", and some tips may be helpful.
    
    That was my fault for not testing the link, and I apologize to those who
    were stuck with a tedious download of all those images over a slow
    connection. Before posting a message with links, it's good practice to
    click all the links in your draft copy to make sure they go to the
    expected places.
    
    The article in question is in the ADS archive. I reached it via the
    browse page:
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_browse.html
    
    By clicking obvious links you reach the list of scanned journals:
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/journals_service.html
    
    If you select one from the list, and enter the volume number in the box
    at the top of the page (but put nothing in the boxes for page number
    etc.) a table of contents for that volume appears. For example, the
    article with Maskelyne's letter is in The Observatory, vol. 34:
    
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?ref_stems=Obs....34&jou_pick=YES&return_req=no_params&end_year=2008
    
    You can click on any title in the table. (This is probably the best way
    to create a link to the article, to put in a message.) But for viewing,
    it's faster to click on the letter that stands for the format you want.
    These letters are in the table of contents, to the right of the article
    name. (The table of contents has a link to the list of formats: F = PDF,
    G = GIF, etc.)
    
    Here's the article:
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1911Obs....34..391.
    
    (And this time I *did* test all the links in the message!)
    
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