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Re: Nautical astronomy was different
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 24, 13:39 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 24, 13:39 -0500
In other words, they finally found in the beginning of the XX's century that Ptolemy's view of the Earth as fixed indeed has some advantages:-) On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Bruce Stark wrote: > The change Frank is referring to is to the GHA system. > sometime in the first > half of the twentieth century. Until then, > Almanac data was independent of the > earth's rotation. The Almanac gave the positions of the heavenly bodies in > relation to the first point of Aries and the equinoctial. Alex.