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Re: No Lunars Era
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 21:07 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 21:07 -0500
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Ken Muldrew wrote: > For land navigation there was a lunars era. is there a hard evidence of this? (Lewis and Clark story is rather an evidence of the contrary). I know almost nothing on the land surveying and its history, but I suppose that more precise instruments than sextants could be used on land, transit instruments, and such. (Maybe not for lunars, I don't know). > accuracy was easily good enough > because landmarks > could be used, What do you mean by using landmarks? How is this related to the lunar distances? Alex.
