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Re: The Old vs. The New
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2004 Jan 19, 20:47 -0800
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2004 Jan 19, 20:47 -0800
On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 03:32 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > That's interesting. That was surely very late. Bowditch must have > seemed dusty and out-of-date before that 1958 edition (which, I agree, > is a classic). Bowditch changed very little from 1917 to 1943. In 1929 they tightened things up a bit and the page count dropped a bit, but content wise, they do not vary much. Campbell says that it was revised in 1907 (lunars moved to an appendix), 1914 (lunars deleted), and 1923, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1938, and 1943. I have many of these editions and the changes must be very slight according to my purusing them. Campbell also states the the 1958 edition revision was started April 8, 1946 and the edition went on sale Dec 6, 1958. The organization was completely changed. I refer to John F. Cambell's "History and Bibliography of The New American Practical Navigator and The American Coast Pilot", published by the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts in 1964. Dan
