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Re: ? ? ? Re: Old style lunar
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 13, 11:10 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 13, 11:10 -0500
Dear Frank, Thank you for your offer. I already downloaded and printed parts of this almanach (intro, manual and one month worth of data) by spending more than an hour on mouse-clicking. What I have is probably enough to get a general impression on the precision of the Lunar data in early XIX century almanacs. I don't think I need the whole thing. For the discussion of Thompson's observations it would be desirable to compare the data on the specific dates of his observations. These are in 1800 and 1801 almanacs. I am not sure who has them, but my impression that someone from this list has 1800 almanac. On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Frank Reed wrote: > Alex, you wrote: > "2 minutes per page is spent on mouse clicks." > > Ouch-ouch. The thought of you spending that much time is killing me. I just > downloaded the whole book in 18 minutes. Would you like a copy of those files > zipped up for downloading as a single file? Anyone else? (refers to the > Nautical Almanac for the year 1804) > > Frank R > [ ] Mystic, Connecticut > [X] Chicago, Illinois >
