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Re: Sight Reduction by the Cosine Haversine Method
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 8, 09:14 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 8, 09:14 -0500
I am very glad that the name of Ptolemy was finally mentioned in this discussion:-) After all, his two books were the basis of all European navigation for about 1400 years. I never had the impression that this list is restricted to "present-day" navigation problems:-) Alex. On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, George Huxtable wrote: > I was responsible for diverting this discussion into Ptolemy's grasp of > trig. around AD 150. So apologies to anyone who is outraged by taking > matters so far away from the practical problems of navigation. > > Herbert Prinz responded. > > >Trying hard to give the appearance that what > >we are discussing here has > >anything > >to do with navigation,