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Re: The Nautical Day a detail...
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Feb 8, 16:48 +0000

Zorbec Legras wrote-

>The Connaissance des temps is published in french and in English by the
>French "Institut de m?canique c?leste et de calcul des ?ph?m?rides" and
>the "Bureau des Longitudes" sinds 1769.
>
>
>http://www.imcce.fr/publif.html#Connaissance

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I'm hesitant to correct Zorbec Legras about a French navigational
publication, but I have here an illustration of the title page of the first
issue of "La Connoissance des Temps" (as it was spelled then), which was
for the year 1679, not 1769.

George.

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