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Re: No Lunars Era
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 20:07 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 20:07 EST
Alex E wrote:
" think, Chauvenet explains very well, why there was no "Lunars era"
"
Chauvenet was writing after lunars were already dead. I was refering to
something different in my original post on this topic. Lunars might
well have been used as a primary method of determining longitude under some
circumstances way back in, say, 1810. But they were not. Instead, the majority
of navigators thought of longitude in terms of their dead reckoning. They
interpreted lunars as a method of double-checking that dead reckoning, not
replacing it. Today, people tend to scoff at DR, but there was a time when it
was THE navigation.
Frank R
[ ] Mystic, Connecticut
[X] Chicago, Illinois
[ ] Mystic, Connecticut
[X] Chicago, Illinois
